Crap´au`dine

a.	1.	(Arch.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; - said of a door.
n.	1.	(Far.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

The skin of a poulet crapaudine - named because its spatchcocked outline resembles a crapaud, a toad - shatters like mica; the flesh underneath, basted for hours by the birds dripping on to it from above, is pillowy but springy, imbued to the bone with pepper and thyme.

Read this and you may never eat chicken again

Under "restraints" we find: "Bucking (the parrot's perch), the Crapaudine (Toad) (l'avion, Banana Tie, arbachtar, Ulysses' bow ...)" (pp.

Review of Darius Rejali's Torture and Democracy

The method crapaudine is another means of preparing a bird for the grill.

Chapter 7 Poultry and game birds

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