bestride
verb (used with object)
to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
bestrid
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past participleof bestride.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bestride.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bestrideverb (used with object)to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
Example Sentences
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His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neuer bestrid a Horse saue one, that had A Rider like my selfe, who ne're wore Rowell, Nor Iron on his heele?
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Hermes the winged Horse bestrid, 70And thorow thick and thin he rid, And floundred throw the Fountaine.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
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.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
That horse that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse that I so carefully have dressed!
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
