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noun
Prickle  n.  
1.
A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
2.
A kind of willow basket; a term still used in some branches of trade.
3.
A sieve of filberts, about fifty pounds. (Eng.)


verb
Prickle  v. t.  To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. "Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath."





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"Prickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the acquaintance of Jack, the surviving Airedale, and to do his daily turn with the leopards. In the big spotted cats he recognized the hereditary enemy, and, even before he was thrust into the cage, his neck was all a-prickle as the skin nervously tightened and the hair uprose stiff-ended. It was a nervous moment for all concerned, the introduction of a new dog into the cage. The tow-headed leopard man, who was billed on the boards as Raoul Castlemon and was called Ralph by his intimates, was already ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... in the lane, a suspicious quiet. Drew deduced that the riders had dismounted and might be closing in about the cabin. A prickle of chill climbed his spine. He touched the lump under the blanket which was ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... would marry me, you should not come to bed to me—you have such a beard, and would so prickle one. But do you intend to ...
— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve
... of some mysterious unknown prickle his scalp. Sam Atkins seemed remote and alien, like the practitioner of ancient and forbidden arts. Fenwick found the question tumbling over and over in his mind, who is this man? He felt as if the very life energy of ...
— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones
... Elmy now told the knight, that the persons whom the captain had stopped were farmers, returning from a neighbouring market, a set of people naturally boorish, and at that time elevated with ale to an uncommon pitch of insolence; that one of them, in particular, called Prickle, was the most quarrelsome fellow in the whole county; and so litigious, that he had maintained above thirty lawsuits, in eight-and-twenty of which he had been condemned in costs. He said the others might be easily influenced in the way ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett


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