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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A che·val  Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.
    A position à cheval on a river is not one which a general willingly assumes.    --Swinton.