plural of Speck

plural of speck

A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. / A very small thing; a particle; a whit. / A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.

Fat; lard; fat meat. / (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. / The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. / The fat of the hippopotamus.

A surname from German.

Having specks or spots, speckled.

(Australia) The practice by speckers or fossickers of walking around scanning the ground for gemstones.

present participle of speck

A chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber, of the whale.