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▪ I. striding, vbl. n.|ˈstraɪdɪŋ|
[f. stride v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. stride.
c1440Promp. Parv. 480/1 Strydynge, patentacio, stragiatus, pantagium. 1677Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat., A striding over, interceptio passis cruribus facta. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 113 No hope, no sublime augury, cheers the student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law. 1905H. A. Vachell The Hill ix. 187 A nod of the head, a keen look, and a striding off elsewhere.
Comb.1807Wordsw. Force of Prayer 21 The Striding⁓place is called The Strid.
▪ II. striding, ppl. a.|ˈstraɪdɪŋ|
[f. stride v. + -ing2.]
That strides. Also fig.
1538Elyot Dict., Varicus, an aduerbe, whyche sygnyfyethe strydynge. 1665D. Lloyd State-Worthies (1670) 27 Men of quick and large striding minds loving to walk together. 1818Keats Endym. ii. 24 What care, though striding Alexander past The Indus with his Macedonian numbers? 1891N. Gould Double Event xix, He meant to give the horse a good striding gallop as soon as it was light. 1909E. Banks Myst. Frances Farrington 101 The somewhat striding walk of a tall woman.
b. striding level: a spirit-level supported at both ends so as to straddle over intervening projections. So striding stand.
1878Lockyer Stargazing 332 Place a striding level on the pivots. 1890W. F. Stanley Surv. Instrum. 222 In the construction of the striding level,..the two striding stands SS are carried down from the ends of the casing tube B of the spirit level. |