Sentence:  Forty years ago an English writer , W. L. George , dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day , and said , as an example , that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike <WSD>frog</WSD> eating Frenchmen dead '' ' ! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species