Crossword clues for astride
astride
- A way to travel on horseback
- Trade is bad, though up
- Sitting upon
- Sitting on, as a horse
- On horseback, perhaps
- With legs around
- With a leg on each side
- One way to sit on a horse
- With one leg on each side
- With legs stretched apart — tirades (anag)
- Sitting on normally, as a horse
- Sitting normally, as on a horse
- Ready to pedal, perhaps
- On both banks of
- On a horse
- Occupying the saddle of
- Maverick way for Catherine the Great to ride
- Jockey's position
- In the saddle of
- How to ride a horse
- Equitation position
- Bridging like a colossus
- As if jockeying, in a way
- In the saddle of, traditionally
- On a horse, in a way
- Spanning
- On both sides of
- Mounted on, as a horse
- One way to sit on a chair
- With a leg on either side of
- On, as a horse
- Not sidesaddle
- Straddling
- Opposed to sidesaddle
- Atop
- With one leg on each side of
- Mounted, heading off on final trip
- With legs stretched apart - tirades
- With a leg on each side of
- With a leg either side of
- With a leg each side of
- Sitting on a seat that's empty to go
- A way to travel up
- A way to go on 22 across?
- A long pace with one leg each side
- Positioned across street is what interrupts a journey
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Astride \A*stride"\, adv. [Pref. a- + stride.] With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. With one’s legs on either side. prep. With one’s legs on either side of.
WordNet
adv. with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair" [syn: astraddle]
with the legs stretched far apart
Usage examples of "astride".
The enemy strength south of Caen astride the Falaise road is now very great, and greater than anywhere else on whole Allied front.
Astride, he looked around them: the empty-saddled horses now standing a hundred yards down the road, the bladeless hilts on the road, the broken bodies of the two men sprawled in the awkward poses of the dead in the field, the black furrow torn in the ground up the slope from them.
Zanto, Arnie, and Brount were astride their animals, six feet away, the Kid on the right and Arnie in the center.
He not only welcomed them, but he sought them out, even to the malaria-infected Maremma, often returning with a sick man astride on his back and preceded by his ass bearing a similar burden.
There are matrices of paths meant to contain the Laws, which stand astride all the volitional areas of the gravitonic brain.
Alec sat astride Black Minx outside the barn, awaiting any special instructions from Henry.
I wanted the modiste to make my habit with a split skirt so I could ride astride.
Then, when Moon Frost landed, momentarily nonplussed at not finding her prey where it should have been, Firekeeper swung behind her and launched herself astride.
Fogg took the howdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them.
A couple of minutes later, Ana opened the door to find Flint outside, sitting astride the enormous red and yellow Honda, revving it urgently and proffering a crash helmet.
Of Quinton, riding the boat, legs astride, shouting orders and abuse, encouragement and curses, holding them all together.
Doc managed to get astride Judas Redux, and when everyone was more or less mounted up, Ryan kicked his horse into a gallop.
As he traded blows with a broad, stocky, armored Spaniard astride a nimble, dancing roan mare, Foster sensed menace from his left a moment before a shrill scream of equine agony from that very quarter all but deafened him.
He stood astride the hearthstones, warming his backside, leafing the manuscript pages, conscious of me drinking my sherry much too fast, shutting my eyes each time he let a page drop and flutter to the carpet.
A week later we arrived at the Vebiodunum silver mines, Vitalis astride a pony in the leather and furs of a bounty hunter, me running behind in the rags of a slave.