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An imaginary line down the center of a vessel lengthwise. Any structure or anything mounted or carried on a vessel that straddles this line and is equidistant from either side of the vessel is on the centreline.
In shipboard gunnery, when one round or salvo is too far, and the next one is too short, or vice versa.
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v. t.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
n.
The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
n.
The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
v. i.
To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
n.
A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
n.
A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
v. t.
To straddle; to bestride.
v. i.
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
a.
Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
v. t.
To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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