Definition of Bestriding

1. Verb. (present participle of bestride) ¹

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Definition of Bestriding

1. bestride [v] - See also: bestride

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestriding

bestraddling
bestraught
bestraughted
bestreak
bestreaks
bestream
bestrew
bestrewed
bestrewing
bestrewn
bestrews
bestrid
bestridden
bestride
bestrides
bestriding (current term)
bestrode
bestrow
bestrowed
bestrowing
bestrown
bestrows
bestrut
bests
bestseller
bestsellerdom
bestsellerdoms
bestsellers
bestselling
bestshoring

Literary usage of Bestriding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London by Charles Knight (1841)
"It is needless to say that the new London Bridge, bestriding the broad river with its five vast elliptical arches, is a far more magnificent, ..."

2. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"As men that spied the wings, that heard the snort, Their sires have told; and of a martial prince bestriding him ; and old report 31 Speaks of a monster ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"It therefore happened that much at the same moment, Neddy Blossom was triumphantly bestriding the prostrate man, and the female was triumphantly bestriding ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"In any other country these would be considered as just the seasons of the year, and the time of the day, when these ditch-bestriding ..."

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