strideleg
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]strideleg (not comparable)
- Alternative form of stridelegs
- 1832, Robert Burns, Thrummy Cap, a tale; and the Brownie o' Fearnden, a ballad, page 11:
- An' strideleg o'er a cask , He saw the likeness o' himsell, Just i' the dress that he coost aff;.
- 1971, Selected Gymnastics Articles, page 57:
- Land with feet crossed or strideleg.
- 2015, Bronislaw Malinowski, The Family Among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study, →ISBN:
- At other times they marched along singly, the lords of creation stepping out with elastic tread and graceful bearing, carrying their light weapons with perhaps some game, the weaker vessel loaded with the chattels and possibly a baby on the back in a loop of a rug or sitting stride-leg on a shoulder.
- 2016, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Standard Bearer, →ISBN:
- “Aye,” he cried, with enthusiasm. “Man, where hae ye comed frae that ye haena heard o' Alexander-Jonita, the lass wha can tame a wild stallion that horse-dealers winna tackle, and ride it stride-leg like a man.
Verb
[edit]strideleg (third-person singular simple present stridelegs, present participle stridelegging, simple past and past participle stridelegged)
- To straddle.
- 1883, William Findlay, The epistles of Noah, ed. [or rather written] by George Umber, page 191:
- 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 me all the time — and setting out for the class, not, however, without receiving a bit of good-natured taunt from the old woman, who " won'ers what hobby I'll strideleg next, an' ride tae the deevil."
- 1894, John Reid, New Lights on Old Edinburgh, page 180:
- Tradition says that amid the excitement of an execution, the city arabs occasionally managed to slip into the Tolbooth and strideleg this beam, either in bravado, or to enjoy the swaying motion imparted to it when the last penalty of the law was put into operation.