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prikettus [ME priket, precat] 1 spike on which to fix a candle, or candlestick incorporating such a spike, pricket cf. pikettus. b sort of candle (perh. one meant spec. to be fixed on such a spike), pricket. 1300 ~us auri in uno casso de corio AcWardr 343; 1303 unum speculum cum ~o argenteo in casso de coreo DocExch 280; 1466 pro ‥ una magna duodena vasorum stanneorum, quatuor torcis, octo prekatis, et aliis ExchScot 401.  b 1352 in lichino emp’ pro torgiis, torticiis, et ~is faciendis, cum factura ejusdem Ac. Durh. 552. 2 young male deer having straight, unbranched horns (ME priket a male deer in its second year); b (dist. as fallow deer); c (dist. as red deer). 1355 cum ‥ in foresta nostra ‥ fugaverit ‥ cervos ‥ bissas ‥ vitulos ‥ damos ‥ sourellos ‥ damas, unum pickettum [sic], et duos faunos (Pat) Foed. V 828; 1365 quod I. de T. ‥ interfecit unum ~um cum arcu et sagittis ‥ in foresta predicta SelPlForest l.  b 1248 abbas ‥ cepit in balliva de F. ‥ unum damum et unum pricard [sic] dami SelPlForest 92; 1287 priketus dami ‥ priketus dame (For. Proc.) SelPlForest 147.  c 1286 capiendo unam damam et unum ~um de cervo ‥ de quibus ‥ dama et ~o iidem R. et J. indictati sunt (Cl 103 m. 8) OED s. v. pricket (cf. CalCl 380); 1334 ibi cepit unum ~um cervi et venacionem asportavit ad domum propriam Pickering II 91; 1335 prickettus cervi (For. Proc.) SelPlForest 147.

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