Synonyms:
astride, astraddle
Meaning: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
Usage examples
If he went to the corn field for grubs, she stood astride her eggs and peered down, watching his every movement with unconcealed anxiety.
Then the Master Thief threw off his beggar's rags, and took one groom after the other so softly off their horses, and set them astride on the beams between the stalls; and so he called his eleven men, and rode off with the Squire's twelve horses.