Straddling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRADDLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRADDLE, to bestride; to set (the legs) far apart, also STRIDDLE, STRODDLE, STRODLE
• sit or stand with one leg on either side of
• extend across or be situated on both sides of
• take up or maintain an equivocal position with regard to (a political issue)
• fire at (a target) with shots or bombs so that they fall short of and beyond it
• place (one's legs) wide apart
• stand, walk, or sit with one's legs wide apart
NOUN:
• a simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down.
• an act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart
ADJECTIVE:
• Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to sit, stand, or walk with the legs wide apart

Words related to STRADDLING

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Words that contain STRADDLING

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How to use STRADDLING in a sentence

• The priest and he righted the sled, and Mac straddling it, tucked in a loosened end of fur.
• West turned and went straddling to the place where he and Morse had left their horses.
• For Bully West was straddling up and down the room, a pent volcano ready to explode.
• The art of straddling is not confined to the political arena.
• Straddling the limb, I took a firm hold with both hands in front of me, for no other boughs were close enough to be grasped, and thus inch by inch I moved cautiously forward.
• Mothers carry the children not on the arm, as our nurses do, but straddling on the hip, and usually supported by a cloth which ties in a knot on the opposite shoulder.
• There I was, straddling a cross arm between heaven and earth, with the instrument held on my knee, and totally ignorant of any of the calls or the wire I was on.
• Dempsey might have continued his career of straddling indefinitely had he not a mania for speech-making that he could not control.
• Durkin leaped out into space, straddling the first line of sodden clothes as he fell.
• Frank made several casts upward before he was able to send the end of the rope over the limb, and within reach of the straddling boy.
• He came up quite close to her, and straddling his legs a little, stood looking down at her face for some time without taking his hands out of his pockets.
• The owner came right along, walking with a stiff, strong, straddling gait, like a man not used to that way of travelling.
• I had mistaken a wild, frightened steer for a red cinnamon bear! I sat there some moments straddling that branch.
• It is a shack with a sign straddling out over the hot porch to insult the credulity of the passers-by.
• Straddling the log, he started to get his baited hook in motion.
• I had managed to hoist myself again to the bowsprit, and, straddling it, had time in one glance aft to take in the scene of ruin.

Similar words containing STRADDL without suffix ing

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