pricking

/ˈpɹɪkɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

To pierce or puncture slightly.
To form by piercing or puncturing.
To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
A sensation that pricks.
The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
A nicking.
The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick.
The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

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