straddling

Verb

Present participle of straddle.

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Carmen had Penny in the stanchion and was straddling her, trying to trim one hoof when the little doe simply lay down.
He grudgingly released her and pushed himself back, straddling her thighs.
In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.
Praevaricare meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."
He waited for her flush, then released her and sat up, straddling her again.

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