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Prickle   Listen
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.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not only the nervous effect of having these two men so intent upon her every word and movement, but there was something extraordinarily disturbing in the atmospheric conditions that made the palms of her hands ache and her scalp prickle as ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... and esto. At trudgepig. At the torture. At the magatapies. At the handruff. At the horn. At the click. At the flowered or Shrovetide ox. At honours. At the madge-owlet. At pinch without laughing. At tilt at weeky. At prickle me tickle me. At ninepins. At the unshoeing of the ass. At the cock quintin. At the cocksess. At tip and hurl. At hari hohi. At the flat bowls. At I set me down. At the veer and turn. At earl beardy. ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... with a sudden start some time after; there was a chill in his limbs, not from the air which glowed bright in the steady sun, but a chill of the spirit that made his hair prickle in an unusual way. He raised himself up and looked round him, for he knew by a certain sense that he was not alone; and then he saw leaning against one of the stones and watching him intently, a very old ...
— Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories - Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset • Arthur Christopher Benson



Words linked to "Prickle" :   needle, glochidium, prickling, spikelet, prickle-weed, glochid, sting, prickly, twinge



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