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[pricket] (1313)

[pricket] (1313)

priket; 
pl. prykettis  
  FEW: Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED:  pricket n.  MED:  priket n.  DMLBS:  prikettus 2456a
ls(loanword: M.E. )
le

s.

domesticpricket, spike for holding a candle
( 1313 )  Item, en un cofre lié de feer, une mirour d’argent enamaillé, un pigne, un priket [...]  Foedera1 ii 203
( 1322-23 )  cire achatez [...] pur faire ent torches, tortz, priketz et chaundell  Chamber 676
( s.xvin )  chaundelers de cire de la citee d'Everwyk viendront devaunt William Bowes, meir, [...] et de leur assent et volunté estoit ordeiné [...] qe nul occupie de leur art s’il ne sache faire et overer torches et tortes et tortes de broche et prykettis et perchours et mortars et tapors  YMB i 56

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See also:

pricke  pricker  prickere 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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