1. spread-eagled - Adjective
2. spread-eagled - Verb
spread-eagled
simple past and past participle of spread-eagle
spread-eagled (comparative more spread-eagled, superlative most spread-eagled)
In a spread eagle position.
Archer, a Sydney "outsider" who drew scant favour in the betting, spread-eagled the field and defeated the favourite, and Victorian champion, Mormon by six lengths. Source: Internet
Much later, in the 1960s, it was established that the zone of levelled forest occupied an area of some convert, its shape resembling a gigantic spread-eagled butterfly with a "wingspan" of convert and a "body length" of convert. Source: Internet