Pritch (noun)
pr-ich
A sharp-pointed tool or implement; specifically †(a) English regional (East Anglian) a tool for making stake-holes; (also) an eel-spear (obsolete); (b) English regional (western) a prop for a cart.Compare “prick”.
Old English (in an earlier sense). Variant (with palatalized consonant) of prick.
Example sentences
“The holes were made at intervals with a pritch.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)