striddle

verb

striddle

verb

Etymology Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence modern English stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride + -le (frequentative suffix).

Northern England, Scotland, Dialectal To straddle.

I'm going along like a lame duck striddling a gutter.1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:

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