Usually means: Position with limbs fully extended.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word spread-eagle:

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

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  1. spread-eagle: Encyclopedia

(Note: See spread-eagled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spread-eagle)

adjective:  Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
adjective:  (colloquial, humorous) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
verb:  (transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
verb:  (intransitive) To put one's body in a spread eagle.

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