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Webster 1828 Edition


Striding

STRIDING

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ppr.
Walking with long steps; passing over at a step.

Definition 2024


striding

striding

English

Verb

striding

  1. present participle of stride

Noun

striding (plural stridings)

  1. The act of one who strides; a long step.
    • 1804, Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)
      How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!