A spot or dot, as on the skin of a horse; an animal marked with spots.
Spotted; variegated. dappled; dapld.
As he was rocking to and fro in his seat on his faithful Dapple, he was contemplating with a surly and melancholy countenance a glorious, but now past day. – The Story of Don Quixote by Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra