punctured, ppl. a.
(ˈpʌŋktjʊəd)
[f. prec.]
1. Pricked, pierced, perforated. Also fig.
| 1672 R. Veel New Court Songs 6 In vain the Surgeon does apply Soft Balsom to a punctur'd Heart. 1797 Abernethy Surg. & Phys. Ess. iii. 97 One of the punctured places ulcerated. 1896 Wells Wheels Chance ix. 62 Just then the other man in brown appeared..wheeling his punctured machine. 1898 Burr Bicycle Repairing ix. 135 To fix a burst casing and a punctured tire. |
2. Made by puncturing; composed of punctures.
| 1807–26 S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 401 A punctured wound, penetrating the side of the œsophagus. 1831 Brewster Nat. Magic iii. (1833) 43 The punctured pattern usually worked..round the edges of that garment [a shroud]. 1865 Kingsley Herew. i. note, William of Malmesbury, sub anno 1066..says that the English ‘adorned their skins with punctured designs’. 1908 Athenæum 24 Oct. 516/3 The ornamentation of these beakers consists of small punctured dots arranged in parallel lines. |
3. Nat. Hist. Marked with dots resembling punctures; punctate.
| 1860 [see puncture v. 1 c]. |