sprawln.

Brit.

/sprɔːl/, U.S.

/sprɔl/,

/sprɑl/

Forms: Also 1700s Scottish spraul.

Etymology: < sprawl v.

a. The, or an, act of sprawling; an awkward or clumsy spreading out of the limbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > awkwardly or clumsily

sprawl1719

sprawling1822

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > rolling or tumbling about > lying struggling

sprawlingc1400

sprawl1719

1719 J. Ozell tr. F. M. Misson Mem. Trav. Eng. 25 When the Dog thinks he is sure of fixing his Teeth, a Turn of the [Bull's] Horn..gives him a Sprawl thirty Foot high.

1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 103 To the iron porch, they glide; Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl.

a1847 E. Cook Old Mill-stream xiii And the running,..the pull and the haul, Had a glorious end in the slip and the sprawl.

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 188 The triumphant shout which accompanies his awkward sprawl on the carpet.

b. A straggling array or display of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > that which > in a straggling manner

sprawl1827

sprangle1896

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > irregular arrangement > a straggling or scattered array

skail1487

sprawl1827

straggle1865

1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 474 Through one long wide sprawl of men, women, and children, we wheeled past the Gothic front.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 217 The sprawl of nakedness with which Michael Angelo has filled his sky.

Categories »

c. the sprawls, a disease affecting the legs of young ducks. dialect.

d. The straggling expansion of an indeterminate urban or industrial environment into the adjoining countryside; the area of this advancement. Frequently with defining adjective (see suburban adj. and urban sprawl at first element).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lack of planning

cardboard city1876

urban blight1934

urban sprawl1934

sprawl1955

1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/2 It is sad to think that London's great sprawl will inevitably engulf us sooner or later, no matter how many ‘green belts’ are interposed in the meantime between the colossus and ourselves.

1958 Listener 23 Oct. 641/1 As the new industrial zones came to life on the edges of the built-up areas, they frequently appeared to be no more than an extension of the old industrial sprawl.

1967 Listener 3 Aug. 147/2 Planning so far has failed to contain sprawl.

1971 P. Gresswell Environment 122 Green Belt policy stopped sprawl in crucial places at a crucial time.

1977 Listener (N.Z.) 15 Jan. 9/2 It's a sad reflection on our society that ‘suburban’ has become a dirty word, synonymous with ‘subtopia’ and responsible for many urban problems from neurosis to sprawl.

2. A struggle. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition

match1531

goala1555

vie1568

skirmish1576

rencounter1594

drop-vie1598

duellism1602

duello1606

bout1609

duel1613

competition1618

matcha1637

tournament1638

contest1648

rencontre1667

pingle?1719

sprawla1813

go1823

bet1843

bucklea1849

comp1929

cook-off1936

title race1948

a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 65 Jock and him has aft a spraul, Wha'll bring the biggest dark [= day's work] in.

3. dialect and U.S. Activity, energy, go.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]

greennesseOE

lustinessc1325

forcea1375

vigourc1386

virrc1575

vigour1602

nerve1605

vivacity1649

vis1650

actuosity1660

amenity1661

vogue1674

energy1783

smeddum1790

dash1796

throughput1808

feck1811

go1825

steam1826

jism1842

vim1843

animalism1848

fizz1856

jasm1860

verve1863

snap1865

sawdusta1873

élan1880

stingo1885

energeticism1891

sprawl1894

zip1899

pep1908

jazz1912

zoom1926

toe1963

zap1968

stank1997

1894 Advance (Chicago) 25 Oct. 124/1 Fact of it is neither of them had sprawl enough to disagree.

1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. 14 Poor or'nary child—there never was any sprawl on thy side of the family.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sprawlv.

Brit.

/sprɔːl/, U.S.

/sprɔl/,

/sprɑl/

Forms: α. Old English spreawlian, Middle English spreulen; northern and ScottishMiddle English–1500s, 1700s–1800s sprewl, 1700s sprowl, 1800s spreul, sprule. β. Middle English–1600s spraule, Middle English–1600s spraul. γ. Middle English sprawel, Middle English sprawlyn, 1500s– sprawl. δ. 1500s spralle ( sprale), 1500s–1600s sprall.

Etymology: Old English spreawlian, = North Frisian spraweli in the same sense.

a. intransitive. To move the limbs in a convulsive effort or struggle; to toss about or spread oneself out; in later use, to be stretched out on the ground, etc., in an ungainly or awkward manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > in an awkward or ungainly manner

sprawlc1000

scrawlc1380

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > lie stretched out

sprawlc1000

grabble1736

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > roll or tumble about > of persons or animals > lie struggling

sprawlc1000

sprantle1390

sprangle14..

spraddle1632

spartle1710

grabble1736

spurl1821

sprottle1829

α.

c1000 Prudentius Gloss. in Germania XXIII. 392 Palpitet, spreawlige.

a1100 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 216/1 Palpitat, moritur, spreulede.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 1835 Þe kynge saw in to þat tyde A woman slayne, and of hir syde A barne he saw fal out sprewlande.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1957 At þe last sho lay sprewland o brade, Lyke to dye.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. viii. 115 Doun duschit the beist, deid on the land gan ly, Sprewland and flikkerand in the deid thrawis.

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iv. 30 The Peterenians..That gar Fowk lik the Dowps of Priests Else on a Brander, like a Haddock, Be broolied, sprowling, like a Padock.

1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Sprewl, to spurn and kick with both hands and feet when held down.

1825– J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl., etc.

β. a1300 Havelok 475 Þer was sorwe, wo so it sawe! Hwan þe children bi þe wawe Leyen and sprauleden in þe blod.1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Sam. xviii. 14 Whanne he spraulide, ȝit cleuynge in the ook.c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16964 He..sclow hem doun as he were wood; Thei lay & sprauled in her blood.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Tobit vi. 4 It [the fish] bigan to spraule bifor hise feet.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 729 And you spraule on this facion you shall have the lesse favoure.1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxviii. sig. L.iv^v And let euery man beware..to spraule with y^e legges out of the bed.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C^v Senseless he sprauld, all notcht with gaping wounds.1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) i. ii. 20 If he spraule or paw forth with his feet, you shall..giue him..a good ierke or two.1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 218 Some ly spralling on the ground, With many a gash and bloudy wound.γ. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 475 For þan may he noght stande ne crepe Bot ligge and sprawel, and cry and wepe.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 470 Sprawlyn, palpito.1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 54 Then with his knife the two yong lambs he slue, And weakly sprawling in their blood, on ground from him he threw.1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. N2 The better part of these braue Souldiers..lay, some dead, some halfe-dead sprawling on the ground.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 164 I saw one once give a great Dog such a blow with his foot, as left him sprawling with his four legs up in the Air.1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 329 Before the Child can crawl, He learns to kick, and wince, and sprawl.1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) i. iii. 79 If they..afterwards should choose to cool their limbs by sprawling about on the wet grass after the dew is fallen.1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 312 I rode over him one day as he and his horse lay sprawling in the dirt.1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxi Rich barons and titled courtiers would sprawl amid the straw and rushes.δ. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 729 I spralle, as a yonge thing doth, that can nat well styrre, je crosle.a1535 J. Fisher Serm. Good Friday in Spirituall Consol. (?1578) sig. H.viij The burninge wormes and serpents shal sprale aboue thee.1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fvij They..practysde it full well, All nighte to sprall and stryue with wyne.1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 105 The bruised corpes to death doth sprall, And mingles bloud and ioynts withall.1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xix. 232 A Faun that sprall'd and labour'd to get free.

b. To crawl from one place to another in a struggling or ungraceful manner. Also figurative, to proceed, issue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble

scrawl1530

sprawl1582

scramblea1586

scrabble1638

scrubblec1854

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 That this new practise from my old foes treacherye sprauleth.

1663 J. Heath Flagellum To Rdr. All the different Sects and Schisms which He kept in perpetual separation..now run into a coalition; and like divided parcels of dying vipers, spraul towards a union with this their Head.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 27 Who were there then in the world, to observe the Births of those First Men,..as they sprawl'd out of Ditches?

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 240 The sturdy little painter is seen sprawling over a plank to a boat.

c. With complement: to sprawl one's last, to make a last convulsive struggle in death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying

to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483

to draw on1484

to gasp up the ghost1577

gore1577

to turn one's face to the wall1579

to gasp one's last1603

groan1642

not to be long for this world1665

strugglea1674

to falter forth or out1814

to sprawl one's last1837

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. v. 430 Sansculottism, once more flung resupine, lies sprawling; sprawling its last.

1863 Reader 7 Nov. 538 One of them..is sprawling his last as a Japanese..seems able to sprawl it.

a. Of things: To spread out, extend, climb, etc., in a straggling fashion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > be spread out > in a straggling or awkward manner

sprawl1745

splay1848

sprangle1881

1745 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 55 Those hands that are always groping, and sprawling, and fluttering.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 27 His long mis-shapen legs sprawling abroad.

1885 Manch. Examiner 17 Jan. 5/4 A great, awkward..goods train lies sprawling across the main artery of traffic.

1890 H. Frederic Lawton Girl 31 A broad rickety veranda sprawling its whole width.

1892 A. Quiller-Couch Warwickshire Avon 26 The jasmine and the ivy sprawl up its sad-colored walls.

b. In specific uses (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To sprawl, to widen out in an irregular and unsoldier-like manner.—This term is chiefly applicable to the cavalry.

1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 80 Sports~men who hope for success must beware of letting their shot sprawl.

c. Of handwriting or written matter.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > straggling

sprawl1840

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be prolix > of matter

sprawl1840

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii Is it not a sweet name? It sprawls over half the paper.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxvii. 302 The description then sprawled over four sides of letter paper.

1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions I. 33 The handwriting, as he noted, was large and rather inclined to sprawl.

3. transitive. To spread or stretch out (something) in a wide or straggling manner. Also reflexive (in quot. 1929 figurative). Usually with out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > spread (something) out or open > in straggling manner

sprawl1541

1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xli. f. 61 This myschiefe is sprawled abrode further than you thynke; For it hath not onely ouer~flowen Italy, but is also runne ouer the mountayns Alpes.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 169 Though I can sprawl out legs too, I feel neither ground to tread on nor water to push against.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xx. 315 Sprawling out his leg, and bending his back like an automaton.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xii. 90 Speechless nurselings,..sprawl out numb-plump little limbs.

1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 385 Is our exuberance of military power so great that we can afford to sprawl our military stations all over the Mediterranean?

1929 B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War ii. 11 What war there was in 1913 sprawled itself out over the hills of Adrianople.

Derivatives

sprawled adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > straggling

loose1711

lax1783

sprawly1798

sprawling1826

spidery1862

sprawled1884

1884 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) I. 314 The blind man in these sprawled lines sends greeting.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sprawl
释义	sprawln. Brit. /sprɔːl/, U.S. /sprɔl/, /sprɑl/ Forms: Also 1700s Scottish spraul. Etymology: < sprawl v. 1. a. The, or an, act of sprawling; an awkward or clumsy spreading out of the limbs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > awkwardly or clumsily sprawl1719 sprawling1822 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > rolling or tumbling about > lying struggling sprawlingc1400 sprawl1719 1719 J. Ozell tr. F. M. Misson Mem. Trav. Eng. 25 When the Dog thinks he is sure of fixing his Teeth, a Turn of the [Bull's] Horn..gives him a Sprawl thirty Foot high. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 103 To the iron porch, they glide; Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl. a1847 E. Cook Old Mill-stream xiii And the running,..the pull and the haul, Had a glorious end in the slip and the sprawl. 1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 188 The triumphant shout which accompanies his awkward sprawl on the carpet. b. A straggling array or display of something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > that which > in a straggling manner sprawl1827 sprangle1896 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > irregular arrangement > a straggling or scattered array skail1487 sprawl1827 straggle1865 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 474 Through one long wide sprawl of men, women, and children, we wheeled past the Gothic front. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 217 The sprawl of nakedness with which Michael Angelo has filled his sky. Categories » c. the sprawls, a disease affecting the legs of young ducks. dialect. d. The straggling expansion of an indeterminate urban or industrial environment into the adjoining countryside; the area of this advancement. Frequently with defining adjective (see suburban adj. and urban sprawl at first element). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lack of planning cardboard city1876 urban blight1934 urban sprawl1934 sprawl1955 1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/2 It is sad to think that London's great sprawl will inevitably engulf us sooner or later, no matter how many ‘green belts’ are interposed in the meantime between the colossus and ourselves. 1958 Listener 23 Oct. 641/1 As the new industrial zones came to life on the edges of the built-up areas, they frequently appeared to be no more than an extension of the old industrial sprawl. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 147/2 Planning so far has failed to contain sprawl. 1971 P. Gresswell Environment 122 Green Belt policy stopped sprawl in crucial places at a crucial time. 1977 Listener (N.Z.) 15 Jan. 9/2 It's a sad reflection on our society that ‘suburban’ has become a dirty word, synonymous with ‘subtopia’ and responsible for many urban problems from neurosis to sprawl. 2. A struggle. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition match1531 goala1555 vie1568 skirmish1576 rencounter1594 drop-vie1598 duellism1602 duello1606 bout1609 duel1613 competition1618 matcha1637 tournament1638 contest1648 rencontre1667 pingle?1719 sprawla1813 go1823 bet1843 bucklea1849 comp1929 cook-off1936 title race1948 a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 65 Jock and him has aft a spraul, Wha'll bring the biggest dark [= day's work] in. 3. dialect and U.S. Activity, energy, go. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] greennesseOE lustinessc1325 forcea1375 vigourc1386 virrc1575 vigour1602 nerve1605 vivacity1649 vis1650 actuosity1660 amenity1661 vogue1674 energy1783 smeddum1790 dash1796 throughput1808 feck1811 go1825 steam1826 jism1842 vim1843 animalism1848 fizz1856 jasm1860 verve1863 snap1865 sawdusta1873 élan1880 stingo1885 energeticism1891 sprawl1894 zip1899 pep1908 jazz1912 zoom1926 toe1963 zap1968 stank1997 1894 Advance (Chicago) 25 Oct. 124/1 Fact of it is neither of them had sprawl enough to disagree. 1895 T. Hardy Jude i. ii. 14 Poor or'nary child—there never was any sprawl on thy side of the family. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sprawlv. Brit. /sprɔːl/, U.S. /sprɔl/, /sprɑl/ Forms: α. Old English spreawlian, Middle English spreulen; northern and ScottishMiddle English–1500s, 1700s–1800s sprewl, 1700s sprowl, 1800s spreul, sprule. β. Middle English–1600s spraule, Middle English–1600s spraul. γ. Middle English sprawel, Middle English sprawlyn, 1500s– sprawl. δ. 1500s spralle ( sprale), 1500s–1600s sprall. Etymology: Old English spreawlian, = North Frisian spraweli in the same sense. 1. a. intransitive. To move the limbs in a convulsive effort or struggle; to toss about or spread oneself out; in later use, to be stretched out on the ground, etc., in an ungainly or awkward manner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > in an awkward or ungainly manner sprawlc1000 scrawlc1380 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > lie stretched out sprawlc1000 grabble1736 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > roll or tumble about > of persons or animals > lie struggling sprawlc1000 sprantle1390 sprangle14.. spraddle1632 spartle1710 grabble1736 spurl1821 sprottle1829 α. c1000 Prudentius Gloss. in Germania XXIII. 392 Palpitet, spreawlige. a1100 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 216/1 Palpitat, moritur, spreulede. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 1835 Þe kynge saw in to þat tyde A woman slayne, and of hir syde A barne he saw fal out sprewlande. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1957 At þe last sho lay sprewland o brade, Lyke to dye. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. viii. 115 Doun duschit the beist, deid on the land gan ly, Sprewland and flikkerand in the deid thrawis. 1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iv. 30 The Peterenians..That gar Fowk lik the Dowps of Priests Else on a Brander, like a Haddock, Be broolied, sprowling, like a Padock. 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Sprewl, to spurn and kick with both hands and feet when held down. 1825– J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl., etc. β. a1300 Havelok 475 Þer was sorwe, wo so it sawe! Hwan þe children bi þe wawe Leyen and sprauleden in þe blod.1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Sam. xviii. 14 Whanne he spraulide, ȝit cleuynge in the ook.c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16964 He..sclow hem doun as he were wood; Thei lay & sprauled in her blood.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Tobit vi. 4 It [the fish] bigan to spraule bifor hise feet.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 729 And you spraule on this facion you shall have the lesse favoure.1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxviii. sig. L.iv^v And let euery man beware..to spraule with y^e legges out of the bed.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C^v Senseless he sprauld, all notcht with gaping wounds.1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) i. ii. 20 If he spraule or paw forth with his feet, you shall..giue him..a good ierke or two.1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 218 Some ly spralling on the ground, With many a gash and bloudy wound.γ. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 475 For þan may he noght stande ne crepe Bot ligge and sprawel, and cry and wepe.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 470 Sprawlyn, palpito.1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 54 Then with his knife the two yong lambs he slue, And weakly sprawling in their blood, on ground from him he threw.1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. N2 The better part of these braue Souldiers..lay, some dead, some halfe-dead sprawling on the ground.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 164 I saw one once give a great Dog such a blow with his foot, as left him sprawling with his four legs up in the Air.1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 329 Before the Child can crawl, He learns to kick, and wince, and sprawl.1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) i. iii. 79 If they..afterwards should choose to cool their limbs by sprawling about on the wet grass after the dew is fallen.1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 312 I rode over him one day as he and his horse lay sprawling in the dirt.1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxi Rich barons and titled courtiers would sprawl amid the straw and rushes.δ. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 729 I spralle, as a yonge thing doth, that can nat well styrre, je crosle.a1535 J. Fisher Serm. Good Friday in Spirituall Consol. (?1578) sig. H.viij The burninge wormes and serpents shal sprale aboue thee.1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fvij They..practysde it full well, All nighte to sprall and stryue with wyne.1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 105 The bruised corpes to death doth sprall, And mingles bloud and ioynts withall.1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xix. 232 A Faun that sprall'd and labour'd to get free. b. To crawl from one place to another in a struggling or ungraceful manner. Also figurative, to proceed, issue. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble scrawl1530 sprawl1582 scramblea1586 scrabble1638 scrubblec1854 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 That this new practise from my old foes treacherye sprauleth. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum To Rdr. All the different Sects and Schisms which He kept in perpetual separation..now run into a coalition; and like divided parcels of dying vipers, spraul towards a union with this their Head. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 27 Who were there then in the world, to observe the Births of those First Men,..as they sprawl'd out of Ditches? 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 240 The sturdy little painter is seen sprawling over a plank to a boat. c. With complement: to sprawl one's last, to make a last convulsive struggle in death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483 to draw on1484 to gasp up the ghost1577 gore1577 to turn one's face to the wall1579 to gasp one's last1603 groan1642 not to be long for this world1665 strugglea1674 to falter forth or out1814 to sprawl one's last1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. v. 430 Sansculottism, once more flung resupine, lies sprawling; sprawling its last. 1863 Reader 7 Nov. 538 One of them..is sprawling his last as a Japanese..seems able to sprawl it. 2. a. Of things: To spread out, extend, climb, etc., in a straggling fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > be spread out > in a straggling or awkward manner sprawl1745 splay1848 sprangle1881 1745 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 55 Those hands that are always groping, and sprawling, and fluttering. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 27 His long mis-shapen legs sprawling abroad. 1885 Manch. Examiner 17 Jan. 5/4 A great, awkward..goods train lies sprawling across the main artery of traffic. 1890 H. Frederic Lawton Girl 31 A broad rickety veranda sprawling its whole width. 1892 A. Quiller-Couch Warwickshire Avon 26 The jasmine and the ivy sprawl up its sad-colored walls. b. In specific uses (see quots.). ΚΠ 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To sprawl, to widen out in an irregular and unsoldier-like manner.—This term is chiefly applicable to the cavalry. 1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 80 Sports~men who hope for success must beware of letting their shot sprawl. c. Of handwriting or written matter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > straggling sprawl1840 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be prolix > of matter sprawl1840 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii Is it not a sweet name? It sprawls over half the paper. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxvii. 302 The description then sprawled over four sides of letter paper. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions I. 33 The handwriting, as he noted, was large and rather inclined to sprawl. 3. transitive. To spread or stretch out (something) in a wide or straggling manner. Also reflexive (in quot. 1929 figurative). Usually with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > spread (something) out or open > in straggling manner sprawl1541 1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xli. f. 61 This myschiefe is sprawled abrode further than you thynke; For it hath not onely ouer~flowen Italy, but is also runne ouer the mountayns Alpes. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 169 Though I can sprawl out legs too, I feel neither ground to tread on nor water to push against. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xx. 315 Sprawling out his leg, and bending his back like an automaton. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xii. 90 Speechless nurselings,..sprawl out numb-plump little limbs. 1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 385 Is our exuberance of military power so great that we can afford to sprawl our military stations all over the Mediterranean? 1929 B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War ii. 11 What war there was in 1913 sprawled itself out over the hills of Adrianople. Derivatives sprawled adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > straggling loose1711 lax1783 sprawly1798 sprawling1826 spidery1862 sprawled1884 1884 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) I. 314 The blind man in these sprawled lines sends greeting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1719v.c1000
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