Sparked

ppl. a. s.w. dial. (and U.S.). Also 6 sparkyd, 8–9 -it. [app. f. SPARK sb.¹; cf. sense 2 c there.]

  1.  Of cattle, etc., or their color: Mottled, dappled; parti-colored.

[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.  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 sparkéd cat—i. e. a tortoise-shell cat.

  b.  Sparked back (plover), the common turnstone or sea-dotterel. U.S. local.

1888.  G. Trumbull, Names 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), 46–7. One Corporas beinge of Red velvete sparked w^t golde.

1860.  G. P. R. Pulman, Song Solomon, i. 11. We ’ll mek vor thee eydgin’s o’ gould, all a-sparkid wi’ zelver.