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  1. 1. v. t. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. get up on the back of Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak. 2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold. Source: webster
  5. 5. v:100 v get up on the back of Source: ecdict

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