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Webster 1913 Edition

Astride

A-stride′

,

adv.

[Pref.

a-

+

stride

.]

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

Placed

astride

upon the bars of the palisade.

Sir W. Scott.

Glasses with horn bows sat

astride

on his nose.

Longfellow.