| 单词 |
sparked |
| 释义 |
sparked, ppl. a. s.w. dial. (and U.S.).
Also 6 sparkyd, 8–9 -it.
[app. f. spark n.1; cf. sense 2 c there.]
1. Of cattle, etc., or their colour: Mottled, dappled; parti-coloured.
[1457in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 172 Boviculum sparcatum.] 1552Will J. Harte (Somerset Ho.), An oxe of sparkyd colour. 1603–4in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. (1885) XXII. 225 Quatuor vaccas quarum due color sparked. 1811T. Davis Agric. Wilts. 260 Neat Cattle... Colours—Sparked, of two colours, mottled. 1871G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 30 Thee must watch the sparkid hen, Or her'll goo lay astray. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 697 A sparked cat—i.e. a tortoise-shell cat.
b. sparked back (plover), the common turnstone or sea-dotterel. U.S. local.
1888Trumbull Names, etc., of Birds 186 At Falmouth, Sparked-Back, Streaked-Back and Bishop Plover.
2. Specked or spotted with gold, silver, etc. (Cf. sparky a. 1.) rare.
1552in Money Par. Ch. Goods Berks. (1879) 46 One Corporas beinge of Red velvete sparked wt golde. 1860G. P. R. Pulman Song Solomon i. 11 We'll mek vor thee eydgin's o' gould, all a-sparkid wi' zelver. |
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