Terms vs Spraddle - What's the difference?
terms | spraddle |
To stand, lie, or move, with legs spread.
* 2001 , Popular Science - Vol. 274 p.38, Wingman
*:The Jet Man, under the weight of his wing, spraddles out on all fours in a poof of dust and straw.
*1935 , Robert E. Howard, The Apache Mountain War
*:"He wouldn't if he knowed what I knowed," I opined, because I'd thought up a way to git Cousin Buckner out of the way that night. "He'd be headin' for Wolf Canyon fast as he could spraddle . I just met Harry Braxton with a pack-mule headin' for there."
* 1913 , (Jack London), (The Cruise of the Snark)
*:I spraddled along the wharf and nearly fell into the water. I glanced at Charmian, and the way she walked made me sad. The wharf had all the seeming of a ship's deck. It lifted, tilted, heaved and sank; and since there were no handrails on it, it kept Charmian and me busy avoiding falling in.
* 1898 , (Stephen Crane), McClure's Magazine/Volume 12'', ''His New Mittens
*:Horace slunk into the kitchen. The stove, spraddling out on its four iron legs, was gently humming. Aunt Martha had evidently just lighted the lamp, for she went to it and began to twist the wick experimentally
To spread someone or something's legs.
*2001 , Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The education of Little Tree - Page 112
*:She brought the quail back, and while it was still alive, she split it from breastbone to tail, and spraddled it, kicking, over Granpa's snake bite. She held the kicking quail on Granpa's hand for a long time, and when she took it off, the quail had turned green all over its inside.