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prickle (plural prickles)

A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]
(botany) On various plants, such as roses and Vachellia, sharp, hard extensions of the cortex and epidermis, informally called "thorns" in colloquial speech.
A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
A kind of willow basket.
- c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 80:
  If I had but a pottle of Sacke, like a sharp prickle, / To knock my nose against when I am nodding
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
  The prickle is a brown willow basket, in which walnuts are imported into this country from the Continent; they are about thirty inches deep, and in bulk rather larger than a gallon measure; they are used only by the vendors of walnuts.
(UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
(collective) A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.

Botanically speaking, many plants commonly thought of as having thorns or spines actually have prickles.

A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn

A tingling sensation of mild discomfort

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)

(intransitive) To feel a prickle.
(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
- 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things, page 400:
  Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.

to feel a prickle

Russian: испы́тывать (ispýtyvatʹ)/ощуща́ть (oščuščátʹ) покалывание (pokalyvanije)/колотьё (kolotʹjó) (ispýtyvatʹ/oščuščátʹ pokályvanjie/kolotʹjó)

to cause someone to feel a prickle

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