Usually means: Position with limbs fully extended.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word spread eagle:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Merriam-Webster
  2. spread-eagle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spread-eagle, spread eagle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spread-eagle, spread-eagle, spread eagle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Vocabulary.com
  6. spread-eagle: Wordnik
  7. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Wiktionary
  8. spread-eagle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. spread eagle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Dictionary.com
  11. spread-eagle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Spread Eagle (band), Spread Eagle (horse), Spread Eagle (steamboat), Spread eagle (figure skating), Spread eagle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Spread-eagle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. spread-eagle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Rhymezone
  16. Spread-eagle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Spread-eagle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. spread-eagle, spread eagle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. spread-eagle, spread eagle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. spread-eagle, spread eagle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spread-eagle: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spread eagle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Spread eagle: Sports Definitions

(Note: See spread_eagles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spread eagle)

noun:  A position of the body involving full extension of the limbs with both fore- and hind-limbs spread wide, usually referring to humans or heraldic eagles.
noun:  (figure skating) A move in which a skater glides on both feet, the toes turned out to the sides, heels facing each other.

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