Library / English Dictionary

PRICKING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of puncturing with a small point

Example:

he gave the balloon a small prick

Synonyms:

prick; pricking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pricking" is a kind of...):

puncture (the act of puncturing or perforating)

Derivation:

prick (make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb prick

Credits

 Context examples: 

He could feel the pricking and stinging of the old anger as it strove to rise up in him, but it strove against love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)