spraddle

American  

[sprad-l] / ˈspræd l /

verb (used with object)

spraddled, spraddling

1. to straddle.

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verb (used without object)

spraddled, spraddling

1. to sprawl.

Etymology

Origin of spraddle

1625–35; origin uncertain; compare Norwegian dialect spradla squirm, flail

Example Sentences

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spraddle spraddled spraddling

At Utah State University, he sent the discus on trajectories exceeding 180 ft. from the awkward spraddle that marks his stance.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And all the good hard dollars just waiting for someone to spraddle them around!" said Mr. Bunner with a note of pathos in his voice.

From The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

I watched her spraddle down the aisle and out through the little corridor before I dared risk the accident of a backward turn of that funny green hat.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott

And then they stay doormen forever, standing spraddled outside the door, their backs straight as furled umbrellas.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2010

Special care was taken in constructing new buildings: all but one are flush with the ground, doors are wider than normal to accommodate wheelchairs and spraddled crutches, there are railings along porches and in bathrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Overnight refineries spraddled the shore of the Persian Gulf, pipelines crawled past ancient caravan trails to the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

Richard bent low, collided with Seibert, kept his feet, made the goal one-handed, with Seibert still spraddled atop his shoulders.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was uncomfortable and his legs were spraddled and his body was very sore.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Then he hit he tack, and I heard him holler and caught a glimpse of him spraddling up as I disappeared through the door.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

It is narrow, and the man who is addicted to the habit of "spraddling" feels as if he were tied hand and foot.

From In Pastures New by George Ade

When it saw its audience—the spaceship's crew—watching, it took two spraddling steps forward, pulled the bulk of its pot-bellied stomach up into its chest and paused dramatically.

From Big Stupe by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

The Dutch girl passed at a spraddling gallop, setting a dog at a chicken condemned to death.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read

But all this is only the outside of the old mahogany high-boy with its meerschaum-pipe polish, spraddling legs, and rattling handles.

From The Little Gray Lady 1909 by Francis Hopkinson Smith