lark-spurredadj.
/ˈlɑːkspəːd/, U.S. /ˈlɑrkˌspərd/ (See quot.)
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1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 628 The old shepherds had a comical notion, that sheep blind in the summer were lark-spurred; that the sheep having trod upon a lark's nest, the old one..had spurred the intruder in the eye.
1837 W. Youatt Sheep x. 406.
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