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Spread-eagle   /sprɛd-ˈigəl/   Listen
Spread-eagle

adjective
1.
With arms and legs stretched out and apart.





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"Spread-eagle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Crespo for San Carlos. Castro and Alvarado were sent to San Miguel and San Luis Obispo respectively, where they read the decree and made speeches to the Indians; at San Miguel, Alvarado made a spread-eagle speech from a cart and used all his eloquence to persuade the Indians to adopt the plan of freemen. "Henceforth their trials were to be over. No tyrannical priest could compel them to work. They were to be citizens ...
— The Old Franciscan Missions Of California • George Wharton James
... it a singular fact, because we Yankees are thought to be fond of the spread-eagle style, and nothing can be more remote from that than his. We are reckoned a practical folk, who would rather hear about a new air-tight stove than about Plato; yet our favorite teacher's practicality is not in the least of the Poor Richard variety. ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various


Words linked to "Spread-eagle" :   figure skate, trounce, sprawl, extended, spreadeagle, crush, stretch, range, sport, beat out, extend, straddle, athletics, shell, rout, beat, vanquish


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