astraddle

adv
/əˈstɹædəl/

Etymology

From a- + straddle.

Definitions

  1. In a straddling position

    In a straddling position; astride.

    • The Charioteer rides afore, a-ſtraddle on the Beam that makes the Yoke for the Oxen, which is covered with Scarlet, and finely carved underneath […]
    • A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.
    • She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition.
  2. In a straddling position on.

    • […] see that your men reload their muskets the meanwhile, ready for any old woman we may see riding through the air astraddle a broomstick.
    • The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.
    • He spies a group of Irish officers astraddle the road, conferring on horseback.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for astraddle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA