v. Now chiefly dial. [? f. sprad, pa. pple. of SPREAD v.] intr. To sprawl. Hence Spraddling ppl. a.
1632. Quarles, Div. Fancies, I. iv. O! what a ravishment ’t had beene … To see thy busie Fingers cloathe and wrappe His spradling Limbs in thy indulgent Lappe!
1864. Blackmore, Clara Vaughan (1872), 76. So those two were allowed to spraddle on the floor.
1889. Temple Bar, LXXXV. 2. About the floor … spraddled forms of deal.
