a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 20 Foveae variolarum, pock-marks.

1742 J. Swan tr. T. Sydenham Entire Wks. iii. ii. 98 The pustules of the face are succeeded by a scurf, or branny scales, and these sometimes by pits, or pock-marks.

1764 Hibernia-Caledoniad ii. 22 That face with scars and pock-marks spoil'd.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) ii, in Writings I. 15 His flat broad face was..thinly sprinkled with deep pock-marks.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. iv. 64 A fringe of them..dripped on his seed-plots when it rained, pitting their surface all over as with pock-marks.

1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) xii. 261 His family went down with the small-pox and he was forbidden to go near them lest the beauty of the son and heir should be tarnished by the pock-marks.

1952 G. Wilson Julien Ware i. 5 In the yard outside the bail a second cow..stumbled uncertainly..over the sun-dried pock~marks and ridges carved by her own hoofs..when the mud of winter lay there.

1979 R. Blythe View in Winter 85 The pock-marks of the shots are still to be seen today on the crinkle-crankle wall.

1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 32 The slight pock-mark where a mole had been removed.

1928 Daily Express 17 Apr. 10/2 Petrol pumps that pockmark the English countryside.

1952 V. Canning House of Seven Flies xi. 155 The oars pock-marking the dark current with white eddies.

1973 Country Life 14 June 1751/1 Hollyhocks can be sprayed..to suppress rust-disease, whose orange pustules otherwise would soon pock-mark the foliage.

1979 V. Canning Satan Sampler ix. 183 A fierce spring shower was pock-marking the surface of the lake.

2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 52/3 B-52s began pockmarking the mountain hangouts of the Taliban with 500-pound bombs.