pricket

From prick +‎ -et.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪkɪt/

pricket (plural prickets)

1. (obsolete) A candle. [14th–17th c.]
2. A spike for holding a single candle. [from 15th c.]
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174:

     Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.

3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. [from 15th c.]
   • 1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:

     he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

• Petrick