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Pricking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sensation of sharp pain, or of being pricked.

Pricking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Piercing with a sharp point; goading; affecting with pungent pain; making or becoming acid.

Pricking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

2. The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

3. Same as Nicking.

4. A sensation of being pricked.

5. The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

6. Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Pricking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Prick

Pricking-up [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.