astraddle
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ædəl
Adverb
astraddle (not comparable)
- In a straddling position; astride.
- 1698, John Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, London: Richard Chiswell, “A Farther Discovery of India,” Chapter 1, p. 410,[1]
- 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 […]
- 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 356,[2]
- A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.
- 2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 177,[3]
- 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.
- 1698, John Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, London: Richard Chiswell, “A Farther Discovery of India,” Chapter 1, p. 410,[1]
Translations
astride
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Preposition
astraddle
- In a straddling position on.
- 1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Mark Manly: or, The Skipper’s Lad, New York: Williams Brothers, Chapter 2, p. 15,[4]
- […] see that your men reload their muskets the meanwhile, ready for any old woman we may see riding through the air astraddle a broomstick.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 3, p. 14,[5]
- The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.
- 2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, A Good Man, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Chapter Twenty-Two, p. 359,[6]
- He spies a group of Irish officers astraddle the road, conferring on horseback.
- 1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Mark Manly: or, The Skipper’s Lad, New York: Williams Brothers, Chapter 2, p. 15,[4]