pocked

[ pokt ]

/ pɒkt /

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adjective

marked with pustules or with pits left by them; pitted.

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Origin of pocked

They turned into the dark mouth of one of the caves which pocked the crater's inside wall.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany
I am pocked from head to heel like a Swiss mercenary late come from Venice.
Joan of the Sword Hand|S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
The craters lie in a blown and dug up wilderness of heaps of reddish earth, pocked with shell-holes, and tumbled with wire.
The Old Front Line|John Masefield
It was his third summer for that same cupola and the tin was pocked with little dents for three feet up and down.
Back Home|Irvin S. Cobb

Is it fox-red, and the man a small man pocked with sun-spots, and very quick in his movements?
Sir Nigel|Arthur Conan Doyle