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Definition of Strider
1. Noun. A person who walks rapidly with long steps. "He was such a strider that she couldn't keep up without running"
Definition of Strider
1. Noun. One who strides. ¹
2. Noun. An insect called the water strider. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strider
1. one that strides [n -S] - See also: strides
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strider
Literary usage of Strider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"Life History of a Water strider ('Hydrometra lineata.) This rather common form
is frequently to be found among the aquatic vegetation at the borders of ..."
2. Nature Study: A Pupil's Text-book by Frank Overton, Mary E. Hill (1905)
"WATER strider Material. — Some water striders in a large dish of water, ...
How Large is a water strider ? What is its shape ? What is its color ? ..."
3. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"They are stuck on the leaves and stems of the water plants. The young strider
does not issue from the egg by pushing off a cap at the end as do other water ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"I told prisoner that I them were under no command, did not think any compromise
Later that night Mr. Samuel could be effected; Brown said he strider carried ..."
5. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"THE JATAKA A BIRTH-STORY CALLED THE strider OVER BATTLE-FIELDS 1 This was related
by the Teacher while dwelling ..."
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