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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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