'Spread eagle' definitions:
Definition of 'spread eagle'
From: WordNet
noun
An emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States
noun
A skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line
Definition of 'Spread eagle'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\, imp. & p. p. of Spread, v. [1913 Webster]
- Spread eagle. (a) An eagle with outspread wings, the national emblem of the United States. (b) The figure of an eagle, with its wings elevated and its legs extended; often met as a device upon military ornaments, and the like. (c) (Her.) An eagle displayed; an eagle with the wings and legs extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spread eagle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- aviation badge,
- azure,
- badge,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- blow down,
- blow over,
- bordure,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- bring down,
- broad arrow,
- bulldog,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- capsize,
- careen,
- cast down,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chicken,
- chief,
- chop down,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- come a cropper,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- cut down,
- dash down,
- deck,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- down,
- drape,
- drop,
- eagle,
- epaulet,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- fell,
- fess,
- fess point,
- fetch down,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- floor,
- flounder,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- get a cropper,
- griffin,
- ground,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hash mark,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- Hershey bar,
- hew down,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- insignia of branch,
- knock down,
- label,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- level,
- lion,
- list,
- lozenge,
- lurch,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- motto,
- mow down,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- oak leaf,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- organization insignia,
- orle,
- overseas bar,
- pale,
- paly,
- parachute badge,
- patch,
- pean,
- pheon,
- pip,
- pitch,
- precipitate,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- ramble,
- rase,
- raze,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scramble,
- scutcheon,
- send headlong,
- service stripe,
- shield,
- shoulder patch,
- shoulder sleeve insignia,
- spraddle,
- sprangle,
- sprawl,
- stagger,
- star,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stripe,
- stumble,
- submarine badge,
- subordinary,
- supinate,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- take down,
- tenne,
- throw,
- throw down,
- tilt,
- tincture,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- torse,
- totter,
- tressure,
- trip,
- tumble,
- turn turtle,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vert,
- whack down,
- wreath,
- yale