astraddle

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   dated or regional: with one leg on each side of something; astride

   The rider sat astraddle while the horse picked its way down the slope.

2. 2
   prep

   dated or regional: in a straddling position on or across something

   He balanced astraddle the rail until his friends pulled him down.

Formed from a- ('in or on') + straddle. The adverb and preposition have been used since the seventeenth century for a position with one leg on either side of something.

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