Why, there was a buck I had shot in Hogley Woods, a magnificent pricket, and do you know how she had it sent to table?
"Humorous Ghost Stories"
Dorothy Scarborough
And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.
"Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592"
Arthur Acheson
They had been detained at anchor in the ice, says pricket, about a week, when the first signs of the mutiny appeared.
"Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam"
John S. C. Abbott