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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



... broadly before them, swinging her shoulders, flaunting her emancipated legs in a stride she considered masculine. Then she halted, hands in pockets, rocked easily upon heel and toe, and spat expertly between her teeth. For the first time she impressed the Wilbur twin, extorting his reluctant admiration. He had never been able to spit between ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... ambages by the high way side, we made a long stride & got to Venice in short time, where hauing scarce lookt about vs, a precious supernaturall pandor, apparelled in all points like a gentleman, and hauing halfe a dosen seuerall languages in his purse, entertained vs in our owne tongue ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash

... storm is rolling Which treach'rous kings, confederate, raise; The dogs of war, let loose, are howling, And, lo! our fields and cities blaze; And shall we basely view the ruin, While lawless force, with guilty stride, Spreads desolation far and wide, With crimes and blood his hands embruing? ...
— Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry • Edmund Goldsmid

... house. As he walked slowly up the hill, he made a fine figure of a man; tall, straight, and bronzed like an Indian. His countenance in repose was frank and cheerful, and he walked with the free, swinging stride of an out-door man in full enjoyment of bodily health and vigor. Entering the cabin by the open door, he passed through to the rear where a rattling of pots and pans and an appetizing smell of frying bacon told that supper was ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony

... thing had to last a month more I'm afraid good old Tom would go to pieces himself," thought Harry, as he watched his friend stride away. "Tom never gets to his cot now before eleven at night, and four thirty in the morning always finds him astir again. I wonder if he thinks he's fooling me by looking so blamed cheerful and talking so confidently. Whew! I'd be afraid for poor old Tom's brain if anything should happen to trip ...
— The Young Engineers in Colorado • H. Irving Hancock


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