spreadeaglev.

Brit.

/ˌsprɛdˈiːɡl/,

/ˈsprɛdiːɡl/, U.S.

/ˌsprɛdˈiɡəl/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: spread eagle n.

Etymology: < spread eagle n. Compare slightly earlier spreadeagled adj.

a. intransitive. Skating. To execute a spread eagle.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (intransitive)] > cut specific figure

spreadeagle1826

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 221 Mr. Tory,..a handsome fallow, and as good a skaiter as ever spread-eagled.

1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 303 The grand simplicity of the masters that spread-eagled in the age of its perfection.

1887 Young Folks Paper 8 Jan. 6/2 They can curve their two feet with the heels in front of the toes, and not only make a straight line when spread-eagling, but absolutely complete a backwards circle.

1927 M. Pedler Bitter Heritage xii. 126 The vision..presented itself to her mind of Sir Francis's tall, angular black figure spread-eagling over the ice.

2000 C. Dowling Frailty Myth Introd. p. xx When..she put on her first pair of in-line skates and began learning to spin, jump, and spread-eagle, I thought, Of course.

b. intransitive. To extend one's limbs wide; to spread out one's arms and legs; to move in this manner. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1838 Bentley's Misc. 1 Jan. 507/1 Some [infants] were climbing on the backs of chairs, some were tumbling and ‘spread-eagling’ on the floor.

1937 S. Cloete Turning Wheels 74 A night-appie sprang from one tree to another, spreadeagling through the air and clinging to a branch.

1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 176/2 Our towns can no longer be allowed to spread-eagle over the countryside.

2013 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Arts & Bks. section) 58 Rudd and Mann submit to various types of clinical embarrassment, he spreadeagling to examine his piles with a mirror.

a. transitive. To fasten, pin firmly, stretch out, etc., in the form of a spread eagle; spec. to secure (a person) with arms and legs stretched out for flogging. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > spread (something) out or open

abredeeOE

bredeOE

stretcha1000

to-spreada1000

openOE

spreadc1175

displayc1320

to let outc1380

to open outc1384

outspreada1400

spald?a1400

splayc1402

expand?a1475

to lay along1483

speld?a1500

skail1513

to set abroad1526

to lay abroad1530

flarec1550

bespread1557

to set out1573

dispread1590

explaina1600

expanse1600

dispack1605

splat1615

dispand1656

extend1676

flat1709

spelder1710

spreadeagle1829

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > tie up for

decrepit1688

spreadeagle1829

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 180 I saw a poor fellow spread-eagled up to the grating.

1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 624/2 We have occasionally knocked off one or two of the giants [sc. ants], who, falling alive into the midst of their enemies, were surrounded, spread-eagled, trampled upon, and..killed.

1891 in Church Bells (1892) 1 Jan. 93 Too many witnesses are spread-eagled that a court may laugh and cross-examiners be considered clever.

1894 G. A. Sala Things I have Seen I. 245 I have heard of offending soldiers being ‘spread-eagled’, that is to say, tied by the wrists and ankles to the wheel of a gun or an ammunition waggon.

1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step 149 A man is spread-eagled on a limber wheel two hours a day for twenty-one days.

1938 Sussex County Mag. July 485 One of our party..had a desire to spreadeagle himself across its [sc. the Seven Sisters'] smooth face.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird v. 65 He spreadeagled a broad, powerful hand and clenched Johnson's in it.

2011 R. Gleason End of Days xxviii. 250 Stone was now strapped and spread-eagled to his four-armed Roman cross.

b. transitive. Cricket. To drive apart or scatter (a wicket, stumps) by bowling or being bowled.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (transitive)] > knock down wicket

to put down1727

rip1831

to throw down1833

take1836

rattle1840

spreadeagle1868

to break the wicket1875

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > scatter wicket

spreadeagle1868

1868 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 June 4/5 Iddison..drove Southerton clean through the other wicket, completely spread-eagling it.

1887 Cricket 24 Nov. 460/2 A high one from Miss Tompkins spread-eagled Miss White's wicket.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xii. 266 It [sc. the ball] shot under Scaife's bat, and spread-eagled his stumps.

1931 S. F. Wright Crime & Co. xvii. 114 Every cricketer knows that to be even 99 not out is a very inferior thing to having your wicket spread-eagled when you have made a hundred.

1955 Times 15 June 6/3 McDonald added only 12 runs in 65 minutes before his stumps were spreadeagled by Worrell.

2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Sport section) 30 He produced another big-spinning leg break to spreadeagle Nathan Astle's stumps.

3. transitive. Sport. To defeat completely, esp. by a considerable distance in a race.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat

overplayc1460

smother1676

lurch1678

outplay1702

thrash1789

defeat1830

spreadeagle1832

thresh1852

whitewash1867

blank1870

annihilate1886

nip1893

slam1907

plaster1919

skittle1919

rip1927

maul1928

demolish1938

massacre1940

trounce1942

hammer1948

murder1952

to shut out1952

zilch1957

zip1964

trip1974

1832 Sporting Mag. Dec. 89/2 Though the old English hunter was a fine, useful, noble animal,..yet the pace and fencing of the present times would have spread-eagled them in a ten minutes' burst.

1841 Era 19 Dec. The Ally colt was a bad fourth; Dahlia, Lisburn, and the Malibran colt, were spread-eagled.

1864 Daily Tel. 18 July When poor old Flash-in-the-Pan spread-eagled his field for the Chester Cup.

1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won iv. 34 You've heard how she spread-eagled the hunt a month ago?

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Dec. 12/1 Jack Biener..simply spreadeagled the field and won in a common canter by eight lengths.

1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) iii. 62 The White Sox..had already spread-eagled the field and were leading the nearest competition by a full fifteen games.

2012 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 26 He spread-eagled his opposition in a commanding return to racing.

†4. intransitive. To speak extravagantly or boastfully; to assert United States interests or claims aggressively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]

yelpc888

kebc1315

glorify1340

to make avauntc1340

boast1377

brag1377

to shake boastc1380

glorya1382

to make (one's) boastc1385

crackc1470

avaunt1471

glaster1513

voust1513

to make (one's or a) vauntc1515

jet?1521

vaunt?1521

crowa1529

rail1530

devauntc1540

brave1549

vaunt1611

thrasonize1619

vapour1629

ostentate1670

goster1673

flourish1674

rodomontade1681

taper1683

gasconade1717

stump1721

rift1794

mang1819

snigger1823

gab1825

cackle1847

to talk horse1855

skite1857

to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859

to shoot off one's mouth1864

spreadeagle1866

swank1874

bum1877

to sound off1918

woof1934

to shoot a line1941

to honk off1952

to mouth off1958

blow-

1866 Sat. Rev. 20 Jan. 77/1 If, when merely spread-eagling, she speaks on her own hook.

1892 Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 86/1 The extent to which President Harrison may ‘spread-eagle’ in the Chilian business.

Derivatives

spreadˈeagling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions

sparpling1434

dispersionc1450

skailing?c1450

sparklingc1460

disparplinga1513

dissipation1545

dispersing1604

segregationa1616

scatteration1776

disjectiona1806

dispersal1821

scatteraway1851

spreadeagling1869

1869 Onward (N.Y.) Nov. 440 In the Russian navy, ‘spread-eagling’ was a common mode of punishment.

1881 R. Read Mod. Leicester 219 Here the perfection of outside and inside edge and spread-eagling is indulged in ‘all the year round’.

1882 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 270/2 A strong reversible table should be provided..fitted with a post, two horns, and rings, so as to facilitate the spread-eagling of the animal.

1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won iii. 33 Such a spread-eagling of a field had rarely been witnessed.

1938 M. Y. Vinson Primer of Figure Skating iv. 51 Many of the school figures beside forward threes, the advanced brackets, for instance, are easy or hard in direct ratio to the skater's facility in spread eagling.

1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill i. i. 11 Spread-eagling was the correct punishment for the offence he had committed.

1981 Shakespeare Q. 32 371/2 There was splendid theatricality in the spreadeagling of Antonio, breast bared, on a dazzlingly white sheet laid out on the steps, with two hooded monks to hold him down.

2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 17 Mill House's 12-length spreadeagling of the Gold Cup field.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spreadeagle
释义	spreadeaglev. Brit. /ˌsprɛdˈiːɡl/, /ˈsprɛdiːɡl/, U.S. /ˌsprɛdˈiɡəl/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: spread eagle n. Etymology: < spread eagle n. Compare slightly earlier spreadeagled adj. 1. a. intransitive. Skating. To execute a spread eagle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (intransitive)] > cut specific figure spreadeagle1826 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 221 Mr. Tory,..a handsome fallow, and as good a skaiter as ever spread-eagled. 1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 303 The grand simplicity of the masters that spread-eagled in the age of its perfection. 1887 Young Folks Paper 8 Jan. 6/2 They can curve their two feet with the heels in front of the toes, and not only make a straight line when spread-eagling, but absolutely complete a backwards circle. 1927 M. Pedler Bitter Heritage xii. 126 The vision..presented itself to her mind of Sir Francis's tall, angular black figure spread-eagling over the ice. 2000 C. Dowling Frailty Myth Introd. p. xx When..she put on her first pair of in-line skates and began learning to spin, jump, and spread-eagle, I thought, Of course. b. intransitive. To extend one's limbs wide; to spread out one's arms and legs; to move in this manner. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1838 Bentley's Misc. 1 Jan. 507/1 Some [infants] were climbing on the backs of chairs, some were tumbling and ‘spread-eagling’ on the floor. 1937 S. Cloete Turning Wheels 74 A night-appie sprang from one tree to another, spreadeagling through the air and clinging to a branch. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 176/2 Our towns can no longer be allowed to spread-eagle over the countryside. 2013 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Arts & Bks. section) 58 Rudd and Mann submit to various types of clinical embarrassment, he spreadeagling to examine his piles with a mirror. 2. a. transitive. To fasten, pin firmly, stretch out, etc., in the form of a spread eagle; spec. to secure (a person) with arms and legs stretched out for flogging. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > spread (something) out or open abredeeOE bredeOE stretcha1000 to-spreada1000 openOE spreadc1175 displayc1320 to let outc1380 to open outc1384 outspreada1400 spald?a1400 splayc1402 expand?a1475 to lay along1483 speld?a1500 skail1513 to set abroad1526 to lay abroad1530 flarec1550 bespread1557 to set out1573 dispread1590 explaina1600 expanse1600 dispack1605 splat1615 dispand1656 extend1676 flat1709 spelder1710 spreadeagle1829 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > tie up for decrepit1688 spreadeagle1829 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 180 I saw a poor fellow spread-eagled up to the grating. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 624/2 We have occasionally knocked off one or two of the giants [sc. ants], who, falling alive into the midst of their enemies, were surrounded, spread-eagled, trampled upon, and..killed. 1891 in Church Bells (1892) 1 Jan. 93 Too many witnesses are spread-eagled that a court may laugh and cross-examiners be considered clever. 1894 G. A. Sala Things I have Seen I. 245 I have heard of offending soldiers being ‘spread-eagled’, that is to say, tied by the wrists and ankles to the wheel of a gun or an ammunition waggon. 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step 149 A man is spread-eagled on a limber wheel two hours a day for twenty-one days. 1938 Sussex County Mag. July 485 One of our party..had a desire to spreadeagle himself across its [sc. the Seven Sisters'] smooth face. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird v. 65 He spreadeagled a broad, powerful hand and clenched Johnson's in it. 2011 R. Gleason End of Days xxviii. 250 Stone was now strapped and spread-eagled to his four-armed Roman cross. b. transitive. Cricket. To drive apart or scatter (a wicket, stumps) by bowling or being bowled. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > dismissal of batsman > put out [verb (transitive)] > knock down wicket to put down1727 rip1831 to throw down1833 take1836 rattle1840 spreadeagle1868 to break the wicket1875 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > scatter wicket spreadeagle1868 1868 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 June 4/5 Iddison..drove Southerton clean through the other wicket, completely spread-eagling it. 1887 Cricket 24 Nov. 460/2 A high one from Miss Tompkins spread-eagled Miss White's wicket. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xii. 266 It [sc. the ball] shot under Scaife's bat, and spread-eagled his stumps. 1931 S. F. Wright Crime & Co. xvii. 114 Every cricketer knows that to be even 99 not out is a very inferior thing to having your wicket spread-eagled when you have made a hundred. 1955 Times 15 June 6/3 McDonald added only 12 runs in 65 minutes before his stumps were spreadeagled by Worrell. 2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Sport section) 30 He produced another big-spinning leg break to spreadeagle Nathan Astle's stumps. 3. transitive. Sport. To defeat completely, esp. by a considerable distance in a race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat overplayc1460 smother1676 lurch1678 outplay1702 thrash1789 defeat1830 spreadeagle1832 thresh1852 whitewash1867 blank1870 annihilate1886 nip1893 slam1907 plaster1919 skittle1919 rip1927 maul1928 demolish1938 massacre1940 trounce1942 hammer1948 murder1952 to shut out1952 zilch1957 zip1964 trip1974 1832 Sporting Mag. Dec. 89/2 Though the old English hunter was a fine, useful, noble animal,..yet the pace and fencing of the present times would have spread-eagled them in a ten minutes' burst. 1841 Era 19 Dec. The Ally colt was a bad fourth; Dahlia, Lisburn, and the Malibran colt, were spread-eagled. 1864 Daily Tel. 18 July When poor old Flash-in-the-Pan spread-eagled his field for the Chester Cup. 1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won iv. 34 You've heard how she spread-eagled the hunt a month ago? 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Dec. 12/1 Jack Biener..simply spreadeagled the field and won in a common canter by eight lengths. 1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) iii. 62 The White Sox..had already spread-eagled the field and were leading the nearest competition by a full fifteen games. 2012 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 26 He spread-eagled his opposition in a commanding return to racing. †4. intransitive. To speak extravagantly or boastfully; to assert United States interests or claims aggressively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1866 Sat. Rev. 20 Jan. 77/1 If, when merely spread-eagling, she speaks on her own hook. 1892 Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 86/1 The extent to which President Harrison may ‘spread-eagle’ in the Chilian business. Derivatives spreadˈeagling n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions sparpling1434 dispersionc1450 skailing?c1450 sparklingc1460 disparplinga1513 dissipation1545 dispersing1604 segregationa1616 scatteration1776 disjectiona1806 dispersal1821 scatteraway1851 spreadeagling1869 1869 Onward (N.Y.) Nov. 440 In the Russian navy, ‘spread-eagling’ was a common mode of punishment. 1881 R. Read Mod. Leicester 219 Here the perfection of outside and inside edge and spread-eagling is indulged in ‘all the year round’. 1882 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 270/2 A strong reversible table should be provided..fitted with a post, two horns, and rings, so as to facilitate the spread-eagling of the animal. 1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won iii. 33 Such a spread-eagling of a field had rarely been witnessed. 1938 M. Y. Vinson Primer of Figure Skating iv. 51 Many of the school figures beside forward threes, the advanced brackets, for instance, are easy or hard in direct ratio to the skater's facility in spread eagling. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill i. i. 11 Spread-eagling was the correct punishment for the offence he had committed. 1981 Shakespeare Q. 32 371/2 There was splendid theatricality in the spreadeagling of Antonio, breast bared, on a dazzlingly white sheet laid out on the steps, with two hooded monks to hold him down. 2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 17 Mill House's 12-length spreadeagling of the Gold Cup field. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1826
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