Definition of "bestraddle" []

• To bestride. (verb)

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• "Of all the assumptions that followed the Cold War, none was sillier or more short-sighted than that one super-power would be able to bestraddle, let alone stabilise, the world."
• "He pulled the cuffs out of his back pocket and walked over to bestraddle the body on the floor."
• "But now 'twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, [FN#223] and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass's back."