Spraddle

Quick meaning: Spraddle is a verb meaning (transitive) To spread apart (the legs).

Meaning

(transitive) To spread apart (the legs).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To spread apart the legs of (someone or something).
2. (intransitive) To lie, move, or stand with legs spread.
3. A manner of walking with the legs spread out.

Example Sentences

The Jet Man [Yves Rossy], under the weight of his wing, spraddles out on all fours in a poof of dust and straw.

This soothed the irascible fellow somewhat. Still glowering, he spraddled out of the cabin with the boys after him, and presently indicated one of the small temporary cabins with a jerk of his thumb.

Horace slunk into the kitchen. The stove, spraddling out on its four iron legs, was gently humming. Aunt Martha had evidently just lighted the lamp, for she went to it and began to twist the wick experimentally.

"He wouldn't if he knowed what I knowed," I opined, because I'd thought up a way to git Cousin Buckner out of the way that night. "He'd be headin' for Wolf Canyon fast as he could spraddle. I just met Harry Braxton with a pack-mule headin' for there."

Word Forms

• spraddles
• spraddling
• spraddled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splay, sprad, sprangle, straddle, sprawl, spredd.

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