Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - 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. - v. Simple past tense and past
participle of spit. (Etymology 1) - v. nonstandard Simple past
tense and past participle of spit. (expectorate, etc, Etymology
2) GNU Webster's 1913 - adj. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a
spit. - adj. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. - obsolete p. p.
of spit, v. i., to eject, to spit. - See spit ("expectorate")
(Etymology 2) (Wiktionary) “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.” “This caused
jamming, digging out with a