Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tool used by saddlers to travel over the leather and mark the number of stitches to the inch; a stitch-wheel.
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Examples
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Today it held copies of her embroidery patterns, tracing paper, her spare pricking-wheel, and pounce bags of chalk and charcoal.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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They watched with amazement as she ran the pricking-wheel over the penciled design, then laid the now-perforated paper on a piece of fabric and used the pounce-bag along the lines of the design, tapping it expertly and firmly on the paper.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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