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Webster 1828 Edition
Sprawling
SPRAWLING
,ppr.
1.
Lying with the limbs awkwardly stretched; creeping with awkward motions; struggling with contorsion of the limbs.2.
Widening or opening irregularly, as cavalry.Definition 2024
sprawling
sprawling
English
Verb
sprawling
- present participle of sprawl
Adjective
sprawling (comparative more sprawling, superlative most sprawling)
Noun
sprawling (plural sprawlings)
- The act of one who sprawls.
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
- Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)