Definition of "pricked"

pricked

/pɹɪkt/

adjective
1. Punctured by small holes.
  Quotations
  The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
  1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 19
2. (figuratively, of ears) Listening carefully.
verb
1. simple past and past participle of prick