| 单词 | astraddle |
| 释义 | astraddle (once / 55752 pages) adv When you sit or stand astraddle something, you have one leg on each side of it. Kids on a seesaw sit astraddle as they bounce up and down. The typical way to ride a horse is astraddle, with one leg on each side of the horse's back, and people also ride bikes and motorcycles while sitting astraddle. You might even have had a teacher or two who preferred to address the class while sitting astraddle the chair. Astraddle comes from the verb straddle, which comes from the same Old English root as the word stride — stridan, "to straddle." WORD FAMILYastraddle USAGE EXAMPLESIt was directly below the boy who sat astraddle of the projecting log, and a little farther downstream. Douglas, Alan, Endurance Test—or, How Clear Grit W...(2011) Having careered, plunging and tugging and side-stepping, until she was astraddle of the outside trace, Jenny stopped. Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand), The Pike's Peak Rush—Terry in the N...(2011) If you ride astraddle,” replied Hurley, without realizing that his phrase shocked her, “we can find you a horse that will fill the bill. Holmes, Thomas K., The Heart of Canyon Pass(2011) adv with one leg on each side Syn astride |
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