advb. phr. [A prep.1 + STRADDLE v.] In a straddling position, with the legs stretched out widely across something. A-straddle of: bestriding.
1703. Cibber, She wou’d, etc., I. i. (1736), 4. A-straddle we got and so rode after him.
1823. Galt, Entail, I. xxvi. 224. The tongs … were placed upright astraddle in front of the grate.
1873. W. Mayo, Never Again, xxiv. 314. Strong-minded philanthropists … astraddle of the biggest and most rampant hobbies.
