Usually means: Making ears stand upright attentively.
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  1. pricking-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. pricking-up: Wordnik
  3. pricking-up: Wiktionary
  4. Pricking-up: Dictionary.com
  5. Pricking-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. pricking-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Pricking-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. pricking-up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Pricking-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pricking-up)

noun:  (architecture) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.

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