ppl. a. Obs. Also 5 Sc. spakit. [ad. LG. spaket, pa. pple. of spaken (also verspaken) to mold, decay, etc.] Molded, blemished, decayed, rotten.
1438. Extr. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1869), I. 5. The frauchtismen sall specifie in the frauchting of the schip and in the chartour pairtie that thair be na gude woll nor skynnis spakit no schorne, na hyddis kippit to be schorne vp.
1584. B. R., trans. Herodotus, II. 106. A man … may clearly perceiue, that their hands fel off for very age, by reason that the wood through long continuance of time was spaked and perished.
1615. T. Adams, Leaven, 118. What cares a good market-man how fayre the fleece or the flesh looke, if the liver be spak’d.
1688. Bunyan, Saints’ Priv. & Profit, Wks. 1855, I. 662. They looking upon it … do find it spaked and defective.
