Read full poem →there was a monument to their hero on the hill. So I climbed up. It was
indeed wonderful--a weird straddling archway, supporting an obelisk.
The archway also upheld two flaming funeral urns with buzzard contours,
Dictionary Entry
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
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Common Phrases
fish straddlingstocks straddlingtwo straddlingstraddling legs
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Poetry examples for “straddling”
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