prickwood

== English == === Etymology === From prick +‎ wood, so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. === Noun === prickwood (usually uncountable, plural prickwoods) (archaic) A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree. === References === “prickwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.