Blood-eagle

Quick meaning: Blood-eagle is a verb meaning (transitive) To execute by blood eagle.

Meaning

(transitive) To execute by blood eagle.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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."

Word Forms

• blood-eagles
• blood-eagling
• blood-eagled

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