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Definition of Spread eagle
1. Noun. An emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States.
2. Noun. A skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line.
Definition of Spread eagle
1. Noun. A position of a body involving full extension of the limbs with both fore- and hind-limbs spread wide, usually referring to humans or heraldic eagles ¹
2. Noun. (figure skating) A move in which a skater glides on both feet, the toes turned out to the sides, heels facing each other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spread Eagle
Literary usage of Spread eagle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"London, printed by M. Simmons, for Giles Calvert, at tbe Black Spread-Eagle, at
the West End of Paul's, 1647. Quarto, containing fourteen pagei. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... at the Spread-Eagle and Crown in, West. minster-hatt, 1685. Twelves, containing
thirty-six pages. T, PROCEEDINGS UPON BILLS. The first Reading. ..."
3. The American of the Future: And Other Essays by Brander Matthews (1909)
"... SCREAM OF THE SPREAD-EAGLE WHEN Joseph Rodman Drake wrote his impassioned
lyric on the 'American Flag' he ended it with this resonant outburst: And fixt ..."
4. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1837)
"London: Matthew Gillyflower, at the spread eagle in Westminster Hall, and James
Partridge, Charing Cross: 1793. Tillage is an art of great antiquity, ..."
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