pricket

The story

1. Middle English · inherited fromprecat
2. English todaypricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

First known use, by meaning

• 14th–17th c. A candle.
• from 15th c. A spike for holding a single candle.
• from 15th c. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.