pricker

Noun

1. One who pricks.
2. A tool for pricking.
   • The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that. - 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
3. A prickle or thorn.
4. Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
5. One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
   • The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted. - 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald...
6. A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.
7. A small marlinespike used in sailmaking.