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v. To sit or stand on with the legs astride; straddle.

v. To dominate by position; tower over: "Hitler's ghost, the specter that ... bestrides mid-twentieth-century history” ( Economist).

v. Archaic To step or stride across.

v. To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.

v. To dominate.

v. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over.

v. To step over; to stride over or across.

To straddle over; mount astride of; stretch the legs or corresponding parts across so as to embrace: as, to bestride a horse; spectacles bestriding the nose.

To step over; cross by stepping.

v. get up on the back of

"Now when Kanmakan heard these words, he cried out, saying, “O villain, this I bestride is the steed whereof ye speak and after which ye seek, and ye would do battle with me for his sake’ So come out against me, all of you at once, and do you dourest for the nonce!”"

bestrided    bestrides    bestriding    bestrode   

bestridden    bestrid    bestrode   

bestrode    bestrid    bestridden    bestriding   

mount    straddle    ride   

payacna    pac    instante    bareback    pulser