(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
Verb
(transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly. [from 11th c.]
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart). [from 16th c.]
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
