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Webster 1828 Edition

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Lying with the limbs awkwardly stretched; creeping with awkward motions; struggling with contorsion of the limbs.

Widening or opening irregularly, as cavalry.

sprawling

sprawling ‎(comparative more sprawling, superlative most sprawling)

sprawling ‎(plural sprawlings)

The act of one who sprawls.
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
  Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.