Crossword-Solution: PRICKET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pricket | n. | A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PRICKET”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Small spike on which to stick a candle. | 1 answer |
| male deer in the second year of life | 1 answer |
| DEER ___ | 30 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with PRICKET (5)
But thou--thine heart Is utterly mad, that thou hast greatly dared To threaten us with death this day! On thee Thy latest hour shall swiftly come--is come! Thee not thy sire the War-god now shall pluck Out of mine hand, but thou the debt shalt pay Of a dark doom, as when mid mountain-folds A pricket meets a lion, waster of herds.
The old foresters had different names for a buck during each successive year of its life, distinguishing the fawn from the pricket, the pricket from the sore, and so forth, as its age increased.
And I say the pollution holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that ’twas a pricket that the Princess killed.
Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the Princess killed a pricket.
The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing pricket; Some say a sore; but not a sore till now made sore with shooting.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1955).