Bible Dictionaries
Bestride

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

(2):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bestride'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bestride.html. 1828.