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stridelegging

stridelegging is the present participle and gerund of strideleg.

Meaning of strideleg

Verb

strideleg (third-person singular simple present stridelegs, present participle stridelegging, simple past and past participle stridelegged)

  1. To straddle.
    • Though it's so long ago, and the interval packed so full of all kinds of memories and incidents and experiences, I can see myself, juast as if it was yesterday, coming home from my work; washing the stains of my day's labour off my face and hands; swallowing my supper — my books on the table before...1883, William Findlay, The epistles of Noah, ed. [or rather written] by George Umber, page 191

Questions about stridelegging

What is stridelegging the present participle and gerund of?
Stridelegging is the present participle and gerund of strideleg.

Words near stridelegging in the dictionary

  1. stride piano
  2. stride-legs
  3. strided
  4. strideleg
  5. stridelegged
  6. stridelegging
  7. stridelegs
  8. stridence
  9. stridences
  10. stridencies
  11. stridency

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stridelegging (page history and authors); strideleg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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