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Definition of Striddle
1. to straddle [v STRIDDLED, STRIDDLING, STRIDDLES] - See also: straddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Striddle
Literary usage of Striddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"striddle, to straddle, to stride across. A useless person is described as " gan
... "striddle-legs," astride. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"striddle, to straddle, to stride across. A useless person is described as " gan
... striddle-legs," astride. ..."
3. The Old Commodore by Frederick Marryat, Edward Howard (1837)
"... for the village lads at fly-foot, and get his dear back well thumped too with
their huge brown fists, as they went striddle-straddle over him. ..."
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