a-straddle, advb. phr.
(əˈstræd(ə)l)
[a prep.1 + straddle v.]
In a straddling position, with the legs stretched out widely across something. a-straddle of: bestriding.
| 1703 Cibber She wou'd, etc. i. i. (1736) 4 A-straddle we got and so rode after him. 1823 Galt Entail I. xxvi. 224 The tongs..were placed upright astraddle in front of the grate. 1873 W. S. Mayo Never Again xxiv. 314 Strong-minded philanthropists..astraddle of the biggest and most rampant hobbies. |