LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
simple past and past participle of stride
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.
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