Dictionary

pricker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹɪkə(ɹ)/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From prick + -er.

Meanings

1. One who pricks.
2. A tool for pricking.
   • The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that. 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
3. A prickle or thorn.
4. Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
5. One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
   • The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted. 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
6. A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.
7. A small marlinespike used in sailmaking.

Forms

Relateds

prick · prickle · prickly

Translations (4)

bg шило (a tool for pricking) · bg пробой (a tool for pricking) · mi oka (a tool for pricking) · ota سوزن (a tool for pricking)