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to straddle a river

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  • straddle — I. verb (straddled; straddling) Etymology: irregular from stride Date: 1565 intransitive verb 1. to stand, sit, or walk with the legs wide apart; especially to sit astride 2. to spread out irregularly ; sprawl 3 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • straddle — strad|dle [ˈstrædl] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: stride] 1.) to sit or stand with your legs on either side of someone or something ▪ The photo shows him dressed in leather, straddling a motorbike. 2.) if something straddles a line, road, or… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • straddle — [[t]stræ̱d(ə)l[/t]] straddles, straddling, straddled 1) VERB If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it. [V n] He looked at her with a grin and sat down, straddling the chair. 2) VERB If something straddles a river,… …   English dictionary

  • straddle — verb (T) 1 to sit or stand with your legs on either side of someone or something: Joe sat straddling the beam. 2 if something straddles a line, road, or river, part of it is on one side and part on the other side: a little town straddling the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Kishwaukee River — Infobox River | river name = Kishwaukee River caption = Kishwaukee River in DeKalb, Illinois, May 2006 origin = Cropsey Moraine and Woodstock, Illinois mouth = Rock River basin countries = United States length = elevation = mouth elevation =… …   Wikipedia

  • Karkheh River — The Karkheh or Karkhen (known as the Gihon[citation needed] one of the four rivers of Eden/Paradise to the Bible and as the Choaspes[1] in ancient times; also called Eulæus; Hebrew: אולי Ulai[2]) is a river in Khūzestān Province, Iran (ancient… …   Wikipedia

  • Wanaque River — The Wanaque River (Native American for place of the sassafras ) is a tributary of the Pequannock River in Passaic County in northern New Jersey in the United States.Once known as the Long Pond River, the sources of the Wanaque River are Greenwood …   Wikipedia

  • Across the River to Motor City — infobox television show name = Across the River to Motor City caption = format = drama/mystery runtime =48 min creator = Denis McGrath Robert Wertheimer producer = Wanda Chaffey David Devine Bryn Garrison Denis McGrath Richard Mozer Robert… …   Wikipedia

  • Pinarus River — The Pinarus River is a small mountain spring fed stream famous in antiquity as the site of the First Battle of Issus, near a small coastal village or town which was reported to straddle the stream which by similar sources, was said to run red… …   Wikipedia

  • Aswan Dam — Aswan (Assuan) is a city on the first cataract of the Nile in Egypt. Two dams straddle the river at this point: the newer Aswan High Dam (Arabic: السد العالي; transliterated: as Sad al Aly), and the older Aswan Dam or Aswan Low Dam. The aim of… …   Wikipedia

  • Goring Gap — The Goring Gap seen from Lardon Chase on a snowy January day, with the Chilterns in the background …   Wikipedia

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