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stride-legs

stride-legs is the alternative form of stridelegs.

Meaning of stridelegs

Adverb

stridelegs (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland) Astride.
    • So he stood stridelegs over Francie, who whimpered, "I wouldna have struck this one if that one hadna prayed for me. It wasna likely I would stand that."1896, James Matthew Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, pages 160–161

Questions about stride-legs

What is stride-legs the alternative form of?
Stride-legs is the alternative form of stridelegs.

Words near stride-legs in the dictionary

  1. striddling
  2. stride
  3. stride bass
  4. stride basses
  5. stride piano
  6. stride-legs
  7. strided
  8. strideleg
  9. stridelegged
  10. stridelegging
  11. stridelegs

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