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Webster 1828 Edition


Sprawling

SPRAWLING

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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

  1. present participle of sprawl

Adjective

sprawling (comparative more sprawling, superlative most sprawling)

  1. That sprawls
  2. Expansive; extensive

Noun

sprawling (plural sprawlings)

  1. 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.