Sentence:  She brought the quail back, and while it was still alive, she split it from breastbone to tail, and <WSD>spraddled</WSD> it, kicking, over Granpa's snake bite. She held the kicking quail on Granpa's hand for a long time, and when she took it off, the quail had turned green all over its inside. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To spread apart the legs of (someone or something).