bestride
verb (used with object)
to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
bestridden
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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.
Example Sentences
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James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."
From Time Magazine Archive
A horse, they said, was something that they personally had never bestridden.
From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner
A half-dozen soldiers, riding closely about a horse bestridden by a stalwart young Indian supporting a woman, were rapidly approaching the mission.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He had bestridden the nervous pinto and Molly was “acting up.”
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
Nevertheless, the Marlborough is the cycle I have bestridden during my tour this summer, and a sweet wee thing it is.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
