See Also: pricket(medicine)
pricket(dictionary)

Martinware (iou) and pricket (iou)


Martinware (iou)



Martinware noun. L19.
[from Martin (see below) + WARE noun2.]
A type of brown, salt-glazed, freq. elaborately modelled pottery made by the Martin brothers in Southall, now part of London, in the late 19th and early 20th cents.

pricket (iou)



pricket noun. LME.
[from PRICK noun + -ET1: earlier (Middle English) in Anglo-Latin prikettus, -um.]
A candle, a taper. LME-M17.
A male deer, esp. a fallow deer, in its second year, having straight unbranched horns. LME.
b. transf. A boy. rare. L16-L18.
A spike for holding a candle. LME.
= PRICK noun 10. Scot. Now rare or obsolete. M16.