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astraddle

/uh-strad-l/US // əˈstræd l //UK // (əˈstrædəl) //

鞍马,鞍座,鞍马座,鞍山市

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : astride with one leg on each side of; astride: sitting astraddle a fence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inindecisive

Examples

  • Mayo had been riding the main boom astraddle, hitching himself toward the captain, to make him hear.

  • McClellan's army being astraddle the Chickahominy, two courses of action were open to him when he was attacked.

  • Standing astraddle on both seats, with the map close to the lamp, I greedily followed the course of the 'tief' southward.

  • Astraddle on Tono-Bungay, he flashed athwart the empty heavens—like a comet—rather, like a stupendous rocket!

  • Horse: Place the index and third fingers of the right hand astraddle the index-finger of the left.