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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Daisy Donovan

The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

And that’s when the pain really starts to hit, when places long thought lost prickle back to life. Source: Internet

The prickle in the little girl’s blood spiked with fear. Source: Internet

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.” Source: Internet

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