[f. as prec.] The action of the verb in various senses.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 403. Þenne mourkne in þe mudde most ful nede Alle þat spyrakle in spranc, no sprawlyng awayled.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 470. Sprawlynge, palpitacio.
1556. Phaër, Æneid, IV. L iij b. The blade in fomy blood, and hands abrode in sprauling thrown.
c. 1616. Chapman, Batrachom., 138. Who amids the Fenn Swumme with his brest vp; hands held vp in vaine,… And often with his sprawlings, came aloft.
1822. Monthly Mag., LIII. 335. The fairest blossoms of Persian or Arabian poetry … degenerate into extravagant sprawlings.
