A nail, spike, prickle, or spine. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog) > prickle of (6) pileOE A nail, spike, prickle, or spine. Obsolete. iles pil?c1225 properly a spine of a hedgehog, but used as the name of the hedgehog itself. pikec1300 Chiefly Scottish. A prickle, thorn, or spine, esp. of a plant or animal. Cf. pick, n.1 5. pickc1400 A spike or sharp point, such as the pointed end of a staff, a thorn, a hedgehog's prickle or spine, etc. Formerly also: the spike in the middle of… piquant1494 A sharp, pointed object; spec. a hedgehog spine. Obsolete. rare. spine1753 One of the prickles of a hedgehog, the quills of a porcupine, or similar growth on other animals. |
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