Meaning

(transitive) To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
2. (transitive) To stride over, or across.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To dominate.

Example Sentences

& thou were the truest frende to thy louar that euer bestrade hors "And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse"

But fleeter far the pinions of the Wind, / Which from Siberian caves the monarch freed, / And sent him forth, with squadrons of his kind, / And bade the Snow their ample backs bestride, / And to the battle ride.

The knightly Crusader bestrides a war-horse of heavy proportions , which he has suddenly reined in , as he waves on high a flag as a rallying sign for his followers.

He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast […]

Apart from the traffic that is originated within its own district, Doncaster is the hub of many important Eastern Region flows. [...] It bestrides busy routes to and from the Midlands and, of course, is a landmark on the East Coast trunk route between north and south.

[…] she would take the betrothal document from her father's chest of drawers and pore over the signature: Ezriel Babad. […] His signature seemed to bestride her own.

Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.

He made out a stubby automobile bestriding the narrow road.

Word Forms

• bestrides
• bestriding
• bestrode
• bestridden
• bestrid

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