prickle
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1. prickle - Noun
2. prickle - Verb
Meaning
A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample
Just as charming, funny, and good-hearted as her little pigs, Elmore the porcupine will snuggle and prickle his way securely into the picture-book canon.
And that’s when the pain really starts to hit, when places long thought lost prickle back to life.
The prickle in the little girl’s blood spiked with fear.
We have walked through slickrock slot canyons that sometimes flash-flood four times higher than our heads, and felt the prickle of knowing that there’s a reason they call these floods “flash.”