Straddled vs Spraddled - What's the difference?
straddled | spraddled |
(straddle)
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2
, But guess my surprise, when I saw the lazy young rogue lie down on his back, and gently pull down Polly upon him, who giving way to his humour, straddled , and with her hands conducted her blind favourite to the right place}}
* 1853 , Nathaniel Hawthorne,
* 1978 , Jimmy Carter,
To form a disorderly sprawl.
(military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range.
(poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
a posture in which one straddles something
(finance) an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives
(poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
(spraddle)
To stand, lie, or move, with legs spread.
* 2001 , Popular Science - Vol. 274 p.38, Wingman
*:The Jet Man, under the weight of his wing, spraddles out on all fours in a poof of dust and straw.
*1935 , Robert E. Howard, The Apache Mountain War
*:"He wouldn't if he knowed what I knowed," I opined, because I'd thought up a way to git Cousin Buckner out of the way that night. "He'd be headin' for Wolf Canyon fast as he could spraddle . I just met Harry Braxton with a pack-mule headin' for there."
* 1913 , (Jack London), (The Cruise of the Snark)
*:I spraddled along the wharf and nearly fell into the water. I glanced at Charmian, and the way she walked made me sad. The wharf had all the seeming of a ship's deck. It lifted, tilted, heaved and sank; and since there were no handrails on it, it kept Charmian and me busy avoiding falling in.
* 1898 , (Stephen Crane), McClure's Magazine/Volume 12'', ''His New Mittens
*:Horace slunk into the kitchen. The stove, spraddling out on its four iron legs, was gently humming. Aunt Martha had evidently just lighted the lamp, for she went to it and began to twist the wick experimentally
To spread someone or something's legs.
*2001 , Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The education of Little Tree - Page 112
*:She brought the quail back, and while it was still alive, she split it from breastbone to tail, and spraddled it, kicking, over Granpa's snake bite. She held the kicking quail on Granpa's hand for a long time, and when she took it off, the quail had turned green all over its inside.
As verbs the difference between straddled and spraddled
is that straddled is past tense of straddle while spraddled is past tense of spraddle.straddled
English
Verb
(head)straddle
English
Verb
- As they approached the entrance of the port, the giant straddled clear across it, with a foot firmly planted on each headland,
- The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.
