Bestride
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. To
stride over; to stand or sit with any thing between the legs, or with the legs extended across; as, to bestride the world, like a
colossus; to bestride a horse.
3. To step over; as, to bestride a
threshold.
4.
Bestriding sometimes includes riding, or defending, as Johnson remarks; but the particular purposes to the act, which depend on the circumstances of the case, can hardly be reduced to definition.
Bestride
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs
astride; to stand over
Bestriding
[Participle present tense]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Extending the legs over any thing, so as to include it between them.
