The name is said to be a reference to the'prickets'of willow long thin skewers used to make thatch that grew in the surrounding marshy land.
12.
Lady Carla was made 100 / 30 second favourite behind Pricket, the representative of Curragh in July, and she started at odds of 1 / 2 to maintain her unbeaten record.
13.
Pricket recalled that the mutineers finally tired of the David-Goliath pursuit and unfurled additional sails aboard the " Discovery ", enabling the larger vessel to leave the tiny open boat behind.
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Altar candlesticks consist of five parts : the foot, stem, knob in the centre, bowl to catch the drippings, and pricket ( a sharp point on which the candle is fixed ).
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Lady Carla took the lead with about two furlongs ( 400 meters ) to go from Moody's Cat _ who led almost from the start _ and then pulled away winning by nine lengths over Pricket.
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On a regular candlestick, this may be a short point on the seat of the candle, but a " pricket candlestick " refers to a very large point ( onto which the candle is placed ) with a small base.
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The word zh?�q in Chinese originally meant torch and could have gradually come to be defined as a candle during the Warring States period ( 403 & ndash; 221 BC ); some excavated bronzewares from that era feature a pricket thought to hold a candle.
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The title page of his 1606 edition of Robert Pricket's " Time's Anatomy " bears the inscription " to be sold by John Hodgets " another demonstration of the printer / publisher's need for a retail outlet for his products.
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Pricket knew he and the other survivors of the mutiny would be tried in England for piracy, and it would have been in his interest, and the interest of the other survivors, to put together a narrative that would place the blame for the mutiny upon men who were no longer alive to defend themselves.
