bestride

bestride is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

[2] To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

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