put upon a spit; thrust through, as if with a spit; impaled.

Spiked, or shot out to a point like a spit or bodkin, but without tines or branches: said of the antlers of a deer.

adjective. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

adjective. Shot out long; -- said of antlers.

p. p. of spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of spit. (expectorate, etc, Etymology 2)

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of spit. (Etymology 1)

"The common name of "cow-spit," with the implied indignity to our "rural divinity," becomes singularly ludicrous when we observe not only the frequent generous display of the suds samples, thousands upon thousands in a single small meadow, but the further fact that each mass is so exactly landed upon the central stalk of grass or other plant -- "spitted" through its centre, as it were."

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