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Definition of Straddlers
1. straddler [n] - See also: straddler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straddlers
Literary usage of Straddlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geometric Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations and Algebraic Functions by Georges Valiron (1984)
"straddlers are also able to invest far more in housing than are their poorer
neighbors. By 1993, straddlers had built a total of seventy-eight ..."
2. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"Such wheels were called straddlers : they might have been necessary tools for
the preservation of such roads as then existed, but the increased draught soon ..."
3. The Horse: With a Treatise on Draught by William Youatt (1843)
"Such wheels were called straddlers : they might have been necessary tools for
the preservation of such roads as then existed, but the increased draught soon ..."
4. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1808)
"The two- tow-lines, leading from that bar to those two opposite straddlers
respectively, would then sweep the whole space between them, as the ship or ..."
5. The International Journal of Orthodontia (1918)
"We shall hereafter be so forcible in conveying scientific doctrine
that "reactionaries," and "straddlers" will not assail science without the danger of ..."
6. Set and Spring Your Own Net Or Traps: Results of Combinations of Experiences by John Tyler Hicks (1904)
"We have no use for rail straddlers and taffy platform builders. The time has
arrived when we must teach our sons the great importance of protecting the farm ..."
7. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"... 6307 votes were plumped into the ballot- boxes on this 30th of March,—nearly
eighty per cent of them cast by the straddlers from Missouri. ..."
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