Strid
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed. Northern-England, UK, dated
"The pair have reached that fearful chasm, How tempting to bestride! For lordly Wharf is there pent in With rocks on either side. This striding-place is called THE STRID, A name which it took of yore: A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall a thousand more."
- 1 simple past and past participle of stride form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Example
More examples"The pair have reached that fearful chasm, How tempting to bestride! For lordly Wharf is there pent in With rocks on either side. This striding-place is called THE STRID, A name which it took of yore: A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall a thousand more."
Etymology
From Middle English stryd, a byform of stryde, stride. See stride (noun). The noun term comes from the appearance that the river may be crossable with a stride.
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