"blood-eagle" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "blood-eagling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blood-eagled",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "blood-eagled",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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              124,
              136
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          "ref": "1921, John Buchan, The Path of the King, New York: George H. Doran, page 31:",
          "text": "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.",
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              300,
              311
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          "ref": "1956, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shield Ring, Front Street, published 2007, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2022, Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 562:",
          "text": "It had been a long while since Hunt had seen anyone blood-eagled.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To execute by blood eagle."
      ],
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          "blood eagle",
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        "(transitive) To execute by blood eagle."
      ],
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  "word": "blood-eagle"
}

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      "form": "blood-eagles",
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    },
    {
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blood-eagled",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "blood-eagled",
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        "past"
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              124,
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          "ref": "1921, John Buchan, The Path of the King, New York: George H. Doran, page 31:",
          "text": "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.",
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              300,
              311
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          "ref": "1956, Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shield Ring, Front Street, published 2007, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        },
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              52,
              64
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          "ref": "2022, Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 562:",
          "text": "It had been a long while since Hunt had seen anyone blood-eagled.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To execute by blood eagle."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To execute by blood eagle."
      ],
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  "word": "blood-eagle"
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