Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Prickwood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prickwood \Prick"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
A shrub ({Euonymus Europ[ae]us}); -- so named from the use of
its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also
{spindle tree}.
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