BESTRIDE (bestrid, bestridden, bestrode)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: bestrid    , bestridden    , bestrode   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bestride mean? 

• BESTRIDE (verb)
  The verb BESTRIDE has 1 sense:

1. get up on the back of

  Familiarity information: BESTRIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESTRIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bestride    ... he / she / it bestrides   
Past simple: betrode   
Past participle: bestrid    / bestridden    / bestrode   
-ing form: bestriding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up on the back of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bestride; climb on; get on; hop on; jump on; mount; mount up

Context example:

mount a horse

Hypernyms (to "bestride" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bestride"):

remount (mount again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He had changed from the horse upon which he had ridden, and bestrode the black charger which his squire had led beside him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon which, Janet came running up the stairs as if the house were in flames, darted out on a little piece of green in front, and warned off two saddle-donkeys, lady-ridden, that had presumed to set hoof upon it; while my aunt, rushing out of the house, seized the bridle of a third animal laden with a bestriding child, turned him, led him forth from those sacred precincts, and boxed the ears of the unlucky urchin in attendance who had dared to profane that hallowed ground.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

First came Black Simon with his banner, bestriding a lean and powerful dapple-gray charger, as hard and wiry and warwise as himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)