Pricking
['prɪkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick
(n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
(n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
(n.) Same as Nicking.
(n.) A sensation of being pricked.
(n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
(n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
Checked by Karol
Examples
- The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was not so much what she said; it was she herself who roused him, roused him with a small, vivid pricking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The pain from the pricking of the skin by the needles is exasperating; but when the explosions of the cartridges commence the animal becomes frantic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Edited by Annabel