strid
/stɹɪd/
strid noun: a place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed. Also the simple past and past participle of stride.
Noun
strid (plural strids)
- A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.
- The pair have reached that fearful chasm,
How tempting to bestride!
For lordly Wharf is there pent in
With rocks on either side.
This striding-place is called THE STRID,
A name which it took of yore:
A thousand years hath it borne that name,
And shall a thousand more.1807, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer, 17-24 - On through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing waters1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC
- The pair have reached that fearful chasm,
Also used as
strid is also the simple past and past participle of stride.
Forms of strid
| plural | strids |
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Origin of strid
From Middle English stryd, a byform of stryde, stride. See stride (noun). The noun term comes from the appearance that the river may be crossable with a stride.
Words that rhyme with strid
Questions about strid
- What does strid mean?
- Strid means a place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.
- What part of speech is strid?
- Strid is a noun.
- How do you pronounce strid?
- Strid is pronounced /stɹɪd/.
- What is the plural of strid?
- The plural of strid is strids.
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