"prick out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pricks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "prick out (third-person singular simple present pricks out, present participle pricking out, simple past and past participle pricked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Horticulture",
          "orig": "en:Horticulture",
          "parents": [
            "Agriculture",
            "Botany",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Thomas Smith, Profitable Culture of Vegetables",
          "text": "Before the time for sowing arrives consideration should be given to the question of what labour is available for pricking out the seedlings, and what accommodation can be provided for the protection of the plants in their later stages",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate (seedlings) growing together, for example into a different pot"
      ],
      "id": "en-prick_out-en-verb-M2xZbfWH",
      "links": [
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ],
        [
          "seedling",
          "seedling"
        ],
        [
          "pot",
          "pot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horticulture, transitive, intransitive) To separate (seedlings) growing together, for example into a different pot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prick out"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pricks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pricked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "prick out (third-person singular simple present pricks out, present participle pricking out, simple past and past participle pricked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Horticulture"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Thomas Smith, Profitable Culture of Vegetables",
          "text": "Before the time for sowing arrives consideration should be given to the question of what labour is available for pricking out the seedlings, and what accommodation can be provided for the protection of the plants in their later stages",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate (seedlings) growing together, for example into a different pot"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ],
        [
          "seedling",
          "seedling"
        ],
        [
          "pot",
          "pot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horticulture, transitive, intransitive) To separate (seedlings) growing together, for example into a different pot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prick out"
}