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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



... me a flip across the lynes, and I've got a sort of fancy that it's beginning to prickle, though I can't say as ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn
... Allah!" to himself in the Houyhnhnm tongue, waiting for what was going to happen to get about it. The plot increased in thickness, for the bushel basket began a mysterious journey toward the back of the waggon, impelled by an unseen power. It was a curious thing to see in broad daylight. I felt quite a prickle down my spine as I watched it. Arriving at the end, over it went, disclosing the secret. From out of that basket came a small bear. I swallowed an ejaculation and looked at him. He, entirely unabashed, returned my gaze—a funny little ruffian! ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... miracle, as being more worth, a thousand times, than all the rest of the collection. Besides, it may serve very much to their purpose. For that miracle was really performed by the touch of an authentic holy prickle of the holy thorn, which composed the holy crown, ...
— An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding • David Hume et al
... bestowed a comic immortality. The truth of such remote and ancient relics, which cannot be proved by any human testimony, must be admitted by those who believe in the miracles which they have performed. About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: [53] the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... suffered to take the chance of the season. The melons are still worse, at least those that we tasted, which were mealy and insipid; but the water-melons are excellent; they have a flavour, at least a degree of acidity, which ours have not. We saw also several species of the prickle-pear, and some European fruits, particularly the apple and peach, both which were very mealy and insipid. In these gardens also grow yams, and mandihoca, which in the West Indies is called cassada or cassava, and to the flower of which the people ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr


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