astraddle

adv

1. (not-comparable)In a straddling position; astride.

   “The Charioteer rides afore, a-ſtraddle on the Beam that makes the Yoke for the Oxen, which is covered with Scarlet, and finely carved underneath […]”

   “A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.”

   “She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition.”

prep

1. In a straddling position on.

   “[…] see that your men reload their muskets the meanwhile, ready for any old woman we may see riding through the air astraddle a broomstick.”

   “The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.”

   “He spies a group of Irish officers astraddle the road, conferring on horseback.”