'Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare': General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, I 191

Author / Editor
Scott-Macnab, David.

Title
'Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare': General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, I 191

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005): 373-85.

Description
As used to describe the Monk in GP, the term pricking should not be understood in a sexual sense; review of sources, the OED, and the MED indicates that the term means "hard galloping."

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.