pricket

noun

1. (obsolete)A candle.
2. A spike for holding a single candle.

   “Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.”

3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.

   “Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter”

   “he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?”