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Stride   /straɪd/   Listen
noun
Stride  n.  The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. "God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom."



verb
Stride  v. t.  (past strode, obs. strid; past part. stridden, obs. strid; pres. part. striding)  
1.
To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. "Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field."
2.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.



Stride  v. t.  (past strode, obs. strid; past part. stridden, obs. strid; pres. part. striding)  
1.
To pass over at a step; to step over. "A debtor that not dares to stride a limit."
2.
To straddle; to bestride. "I mean to stride your steed."






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"Stride" Quotes from Famous Books



... follow down through ranks of small tables watched by more stately damsels. Newmark, reserved and precise, irreproachably correct in his neat gray, seemed enveloped in an aloofness as impenetrable as that of the head-waitress herself. Orde, however, was as breezy as ever. He hastened his stride to overtake ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... course gone some time, a still very humpy Christian, was shown extended on the ground, with his sword a yard beyond his reach, and Apollyon straddling across the whole breadth of the way, and taking him in the stride. But that huge stride was the fiend's sole expression of vigor; for, although he held a flaming dart ready to strike the poor man dead, his own dragon countenance was so feebly demoniacal that it seemed unlikely he would have the heart ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... while the firing had been going on, and these dashed in among the flying donkey-boys, hacking and hewing with a cold-blooded, deliberate ferocity. One little boy, in a flapping Galabeeah, kept ahead of his pursuers for a time, but the long stride of the camels ran him down, and an Arab thrust his spear into the middle of his stooping back. The small, white-clad corpses looked like a flock of ...
— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle

... very well represent the Anglo-Sax. Hunbeald, but, in the absence of links, it is better to regard it as a popular perversion of Hannibal (Chapter VIII). In dealing with this subject, the via media is the safe one, and one cannot pass in one stride from Hengist and Horsa ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... with a bitter smile of hatred, then he turned his face away, upon which was a long livid mark where the whip had fallen, and we saw him stride towards the exiles passing ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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