blood-eagle

present singular third person blood-eagles · participle present blood-eagling · participle past blood-eagled · past blood-eagled

1. transitiveTo execute by blood eagle.

   It had been a long while since Hunt had seen anyone blood-eagled.

   2022, Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 562

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   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

   He stood with one hand twisted in Garm's collar, Wave-flame naked in the other, looking down at the torn and broken body of his foster-father, that had even yet something of unbreakable defiance about it; and his face was a white mask in the torchlight. "It may be that it will not be given to me to blood-eagle this Red King with my own hands, Ari Fostri, but nevertheless, I will repay the debt due to Normandy; I will repay it in full measure and running over."

   1956, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shield Ring, Front Street, published 2007, →ISBN, page 58