- Extending across - On both sides of - With a leg on each side - With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback;
with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
- A chest for valuables - Strongbox for valuables - A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping
money or other valuables. - Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. - A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or
portico; a caisson. - A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending
across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. - The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a
cofferdam.
- Newspaper article about line of soldiers - Newspaper piece - Pillar - Upright support - Vertical pillar or support - A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a
roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed
of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. - Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in
architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column
of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal
column.