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In a striding position; with the legs stretched wide apart, or so that one leg is on each side of some object between, as when a person is on…
In a straddling position, with the legs stretched out widely across something. a-straddle of: bestriding.
with the legs astride; also attributive.
= a-straddle, adv., astride. Also const. of.
a saddle on which the rider sits astride; also as adv., on a cross-saddle, astride.