Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bestride. See
straddle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bestride.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bestride .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of all the assumptions that followed the Cold War, none was sillier or more short-sighted than that one super-power would be able to bestraddle, let alone stabilise, the world.
Simon Jenkins: Bush Gives a Glimmer of a Gandhian Humility 2008
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He pulled the cuffs out of his back pocket and walked over to bestraddle the body on the floor.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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But now 'twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, [FN#223] and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass's back.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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As usual, he prepared to bestraddle his English-made Triumph hog by hiking up his pants, but little did he realize that in doing so he had inadvertently switched on the Strapocaster's industrial-strength electromagnet.
Word Magazine - Comments captain 2010
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But now ’twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, 223 and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass’s back.
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