"priken" meaning in Middle English

See priken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} priken
  1. alternative form of prikken Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: prikken
    Sense id: en-priken-enm-verb-M3LmMT8d Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "parents": [],
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "english": "(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)",
          "text": "14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.\nAnd smale foweles maken melodye,\nThat slepen al the nyght with open eye-\n(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);\nAnd many little birds make melody\nThat sleep through all the night with open eye",
          "translation": "(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "alternative form of prikken"
      ],
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          "prikken#Middle_English"
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        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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          "english": "(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)",
          "text": "14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.\nAnd smale foweles maken melodye,\nThat slepen al the nyght with open eye-\n(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);\nAnd many little birds make melody\nThat sleep through all the night with open eye",
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        }
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