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.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
