Definition of "pricket"

pricket

/ˈpɹɪkɪt/

noun
plural prickets
1. (obsolete) A candle.
2. A spike for holding a single candle.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?
  1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign