📖 Definitions of "Pricking"
verb
- 1
To pierce or puncture slightly.
"John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood."
- 2
To form by piercing or puncturing.
"to prick a pattern for embroidery"
- 3
To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
- 4
To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
noun
- 1
The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
- 2
A sensation that pricks.
"the prickings of conscience"
- 3
The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
- 4
A nicking.
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