asprawl

UK /əˈspɹɔːl/ US /əˈspɹɔːl/
adj 1prep 1

Definitions

adj

1

Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).

1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.

[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,

prep

1

Sprawling over or across.

All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,

Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.

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