pricking
/ˈprɪkɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of prickle; causing a tingling or stinging sensation.
- The cold wind was pricking at her cheeks as she walked home.
- The wool sweater was pricking her arms, so she changed into a cotton shirt.
- His conscience was pricking him after he told the lie.
noun
- A slight, sharp pain or sensation like that of a small point piercing the skin.
- She felt a pricking in her finger after touching the cactus.
- The pricking of the needle made him flinch during the vaccination.
- A sudden pricking in his side warned him he had run too far.
- The act or process of making small holes or marks with a sharp point.
- The pricking of the leather helped the cobbler sew the pieces together.
- Pricking the pattern into the clay was the first step in making the pottery.
- The gardener used a tool for pricking the soil to aerate it.