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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



... rapid steps out of the shed. Then he paused, just as a startled horse would do, turned half round, and eyed us sidelong with as fierce and ugly a look as any human face could wear. Then he began to stride rapidly to and fro in front of the shed, stamping his feet whenever he turned, and keeping his eyes fixed on the swarthy countenance of Chandrapal, with an expression of the ...
— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks
... inches at a time, edging his way along, with the water deepening, so that he was ready to pause. But he felt that hesitation would be fatal; and, pressing on, his left foot went down lower than ever, making him withdraw it and try to take a longer stride. ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... we were to show our hands, that Olive would get as much as Dick's son. There it is again. I can't keep my mind off the thing." And as he spoke he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and began to stride up and down the garden walk; and as he did so he began ...
— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton
... her he saw nothing else. She looked like one of the fir-trees when the sun had caught it; she seemed aflame with a quite peculiar radiance and joy. She flew toward Winn, imitating the speed-skaters with one long swift stride ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a project, to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of power, calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves ...
— The Federalist Papers


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