Pricking Note
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Where goods intended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorise the receiving the goods on board. This document is called a "pricking note," from a practice of pricking holes in the paper corresponding with the number of packages counted into the ship. Hamel, Oust. 181.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Where goods intended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorize the receiving the goods on board. This document is called a " pricking note," from a practice of pricking holes in the paper corresponding with the number of packages counted into the ship. Samel Cust. 181.