striddle

Frequentative of Middle English striden (whence stride), from Old English strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Equivalent to stride +‎ -le.

striddle (third-person singular simple present striddles, present participle striddling, simple past and past participle striddled)

1. (dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To straddle. [from mid-15^th c.]
   • 1890, George Manville Fenn, Cormorant Crag:

     I'm going along like a lame duck striddling a gutter.

• tiddlers