Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed);
VERB (2)
1.
prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock;
- Example: "spatchcock a guinea hen"2.
interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spatchcock \Spatch"cock`\, n.
See Spitchcock.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spatchcock
n 1: flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and
grilled (usually immediately after being killed)
v 1: prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a
guinea hen"
2: interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story