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blood-eagling

blood-eagling is the present participle and gerund of blood-eagle.

Meaning of blood-eagle

Verb

blood-eagle (third-person singular simple present blood-eagles, present participle blood-eagling, simple past and past participle blood-eagled)

  1. (transitive) To execute by blood eagle.
    • Of the ships and the stockade nothing remained but hot cinders. Half the guard were dead, and old Arnwulf, the captain, lay blood-eagled on the edge of the tide. The others had gone they knew not where, but doubtless into the forests.1921, John Buchan, The Path of the King, New York: George H. Doran, page 31

Questions about blood-eagling

What is blood-eagling the present participle and gerund of?
Blood-eagling is the present participle and gerund of blood-eagle.

Words near blood-eagling in the dictionary

  1. blood-doll
  2. blood-dolls
  3. blood-eagle
  4. blood-eagled
  5. blood-eagles
  6. blood-eagling
  7. blood-hound
  8. blood-house
  9. blood-houses
  10. blood-letting
  11. blood-red

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