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

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 Elliott, Francis Perry

"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 Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)

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

They exchanged them for ten $2 tickets, and spraddled their money across the next two races.

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

He was still couched there, spraddling ridiculously on his stomach, with his legs outstretched in a sawbuck pattern, as we came away.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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 Smith, Francis Hopkinson

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 Read, Opie Percival

For two or three years he followed the flocks in their summer grazing over the vast, spraddling mesas of Pine Mountain, and made a general nuisance of himself in the camps.

From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Kelly, Allen