where goods In-tended 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 pa* per corresponding with the number of pack-ages counted Into the ship. Hamel, Cust. 181
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
