[f. STRADDLE v. + -ER1.] One who or something that straddles.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazons, ix. (1864), 265. A suitable tree was found for the shell of the boat…. The expanding of the log thus hollowed out is a critical operation…. Wooden straddlers … are inserted into the opening.
1882. Poker; how to play it, 49. The player to the left of the last straddler … must be the first to declare whether he will make good the straddle, and so on.
1889. Voice (N. Y.), Jan., 10. Contemptible straddlers of great and solemn issues.
1911. Webster, Straddler,… a. Railroads. A tool that straddles the rail to bear upon the projecting ends of a tie plate, used in driving tie plates into the track. b. A weeding hoe that straddles a row.
