pricket

plural prickets

1. obsoleteA candle.First known use 14th–17th c.
2. A spike for holding a single candle.First known use 15th c.

   Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.

   2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174

3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.First known use 15th c.

   Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

   1 more example

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

   1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign

   Synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter