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.
| [1457 in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 172 Boviculum sparcatum.] 1552 Will J. Harte (Somerset Ho.), An oxe of sparkyd colour. 1603–4 in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. (1885) XXII. 225 Quatuor vaccas quarum due color sparked. 1811 T. Davis Agric. Wilts. 260 Neat Cattle... Colours—Sparked, of two colours, mottled. 1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 30 Thee must watch the sparkid hen, Or her'll goo lay astray. 1888 Elworthy 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.
| 1888 Trumbull 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.
| 1552 in Money Par. Ch. Goods Berks. (1879) 46 One Corporas beinge of Red velvete sparked w{supt} golde. 1860 G. P. R. Pulman Song Solomon i. 11 We'll mek vor thee eydgin's o' gould, all a-sparkid wi' zelver. |