DCHP-1 Online
strad [? a shortening of straddle] Maritimes 
n. See quote.
- 1955 Before anchoring I had had the cable parceled and served with canvas and bagging along the part stretching from the hawse-pipe to the water--the "strad" as fishermen call it.
- 1955 Before anchoring I had had the cable parceled and served with canvas and bagging along the part stretching from the hawse-pipe to the water--the "strad" as fishermen call it.