Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A preterit (obsolete) and past participle of stride.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
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- noun UK, dialect, dated A
narrow passage betweenprecipitous rocks orbanks , which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Digitale medier, koncepter & livet som sådan – Den gode strid says:
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Around the corner, two blocks south, he saw her strid ing down the avenue.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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"Hang on, kid," she muttered, and turned her strid-er around.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990
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While the silica was neither dissolved by acids nor attacked by some unsuspected subsurface carnivore, it did attract some attention in the form of a knot of round little water strid-ers.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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This being said, one of them moved and turned up my bed, and then they strid over mee, and clapped their buttocks upon my face, and all bepissed mee until I was wringing wet.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Nogle sagn (1865) [Some Stories], Kors og kaerlighed (1858) [Cross and Love], Den evige strid
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The Boy of Egremont, poor fellow, just about to bound across the strid. '
Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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They strid twenty paces at a jump, with burdens that two of the best oxen about the manor had not shifted the length of my thumbnail.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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Det fanns ej bäck, hur strid han var, 11 varöver han ej Ingborg bar.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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Jag var också ung en gång; 21 livet är en strid från början, ungdomen dess bärsärksgång.
Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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Webster's Dictionary, 1913 edition
(Strid) n. A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. Prov. Eng. Howitt.
"...on through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing waters..."
_From Water Babies, Charles Kingsley, 1937
January 28, 2008