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strids

strids is the plural of strid.

Meaning of strid

Noun

strid (plural strids)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dated) 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

Questions about strids

What is strids the plural of?
Strids is the plural of strid.

Words near strids in the dictionary

  1. stridingly
  2. stridings
  3. stridor
  4. stridorous
  5. stridors
  6. strids
  7. stridulant
  8. stridulantly
  9. stridulate
  10. stridulated
  11. stridulates

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