splaying

One should notice, too, the "splaying" of the outer wall, by which missiles from the top would be projected outwards; and also the use of the mill-stream to carry away the refuse of the garderobe tower.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

First ELSE cellphone, we should've waited for them to come along and show off their initial device; it uses a "splaying" one-thumb navigation system that promises to bypass digging through menus.

SlashGear 2009

He pushed himself away from the car, splaying out his arms and sinking his fingers into the slimy mud.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

"Hello!" she rasps, teeth bared and limbs freakishly splaying.

I Don't Believe in Outer Space – review 2011

Jesus Montero stretches out his ample frame in a locker room chair as he answers each question, his long legs splaying in front of him.

Is Montero Too Big for the Job? Daniel Barbarisi 2011

Milky came by the way of kindness, that virtue and spoke in languages born from that branch, small kisses on the side of her cheek, and hugs that Milky expressed in her own way: splaying her body atop the woman's chest, staying put for a good fifteen or so minutes or until the vectors of hell had moved on to something else, someone else.

The Ghost of Water, the Ghost of Dreaded Fall Amy Geeleher Burt 2011

She pulls me into her hug, a haze of Tabu, her pink, pink nails splaying around my shoulder.

The Cougar Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

“You might even call us cousins of a sort,” he continued, splaying his fingers over my breastbone, playfully reaching down to tweak a peaked nipple.

Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

She pulls me into her hug, a haze of Tabu, her pink, pink nails splaying around my shoulder.

The Cougar Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

Not until spring could he stand on uncarpeted floors without his rear legs splaying out in a V.

Suddenly paralyzed, Rufus doggedly learns to walk again 2009