bestride Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb get up on the back of
    hop on; get on; mount; mount up; jump on; climb on.
    • mount a horse

WordNet

Be*stride" transitive verb
Etymology
AS. bestridan; pref. be- + stridan to stride.
Wordforms
imperfect Bestrode (obsolete or R ) Bestrid ; past participle Bestridden Bestrid, Bestrode; present participle & verbal noun Bestriding
Definitions
  1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
    That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak.
    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.
  2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

Webster 1913