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
It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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
The whip-lash path, running perilously along the cliff-edge towards Elne, was broken by no slowly-crawling white speck, the mule bestridden by Don Jordy, Notary Episcopal of the ancient See of the Bishops of Elne.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
In a moment they were under cover of the bush and safe out of shot, but in that moment I had recognised the steed bestridden by the hindermost one.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
