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Straddle   /strˈædəl/   Listen
Straddle

verb
(past & past part. straddled; pres. part. straddling)
1.
Sit or stand astride of.
2.
Range or extend over; occupy a certain area.  Synonym: range.
3.
Be noncommittal.
noun
1.
A noncommittal or equivocal position.
2.
A gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars.
3.
The act of sitting or standing astride.  Synonym: span.
4.
The option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options.





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"Straddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the keyhole, and through it saw a narrow segment of the room. Ad Miller was sitting a-straddle a chair, his elbows on the back. Another man, one not visible to the cowpuncher, was announcing a decision and giving ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
... crows Joe. "He's a jolly ole brick, that Frisbie! I'm a-gunter set straddle on the ridge-pole, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various
... now here are my girls that can't be satisfied to sit down and hem good crash towels for their mother, but must turn themselves into boys, and play ranchmen and baseball and hockey on the ice, and Wild West shows with the dogs and the pony—and even riding him a-straddle—and want to go to college just because their two brothers are going, and, for all I know, join a fraternity and have secrets from their own mother and a football team!" She paused long enough ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... the sauces, and those petticoats called breeches; those tiny shoes, covered with ribbons, which make you look like feather-legged pigeons; and those large rolls wherein the legs are put every morning, as it were into the stocks, and in which we see these gallants straddle about with their legs as wide apart, as if they were the beams ...
— The School for Husbands • Moliere
... impatience for the word. He had that word. And Bland, who had glanced over his shoulder and glimpsed some one coming,—some one who much resembled a messenger boy,—turned the motor over with one mighty pull, and made the cockpit in two jumps and a straddle. ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower


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