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Definition of Bestriding

Bestriding
Bestride Be*stride", v. t. [imp. Bestrode, (Obs. or R.) Bestrid; p. p. Bestridden, Bestrid, Bestrode; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestriding.] [AS. bestr[=i]dan; pref. be- + str[=i]dan to stride.] 1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. --Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. --Shak. 2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

Meaning of Bestriding from wikipedia

- group of European architects announced plans to build a modern Colossus bestriding two piers at the harbour entrance, despite a preponderance of evidence...
- you. Hicks, Jim (14 October 1966). "A Poet with a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science". Life. Vol. 51, no. 16. pp. 55–66. ISSN 0024-3019. A...
- Royal Mint and Hyde Park Barracks. There the proud arch Colossus like bestride Yon glittering streams and bound the strafing tide. — Prophetic observation...
- University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-521-82093-6. Robert Ousterhout (2005) "'Bestride the Very Peak of Heaven': The Parthenon after Antiquity." In Neils (ed)...
- Shadows". The New York Times. Now Brennan was out, having traded world-bestriding power for a handful of gigs: adviser on world events for clients of Kissinger...
- reported an accident in which an anonymous "gentleman from Dumfries-shire... bestride a velocipede... of ingenious design" knocked over a little girl in Glasgow...
- vandalized remains of fasces on all four corners of its plinth. Fasces bestride Speaker's rostrum in the House chamber of the United States Capitol Above...
- instruments among the captured materiel. The Finnish area of Lapland, bestriding the Arctic Circle, is sp****ly developed, with little daylight and persistent...
- in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who s****s to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor or from...
- is now at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and shows a triumphant figure bestriding a very small lion that rears up to look at him. Its frisky behaviour brings...