(~s, straddling, ~d)
1.
If you ~ something, you put or have one leg on either side of it.
He sat down, straddling the chair.
VERB: V n
2.
If something ~s a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it.
A small wooden bridge ~d the dike.
...this town that ~s the US-Mexico border.
VERB: V n, V n
3.
Someone or something that ~s different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all.
He ~s two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.
VERB: V n