striddling(s, adv. dial.
(ˈstrɪdlɪŋ(z))
Forms: 5–6 strydlingis, 7, 9 stridling, 9 stridelins, stridlin(g)s (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[f. strid- wk. stem of stride n. or v. + -ling, -lings.]
Astride.
| c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 392 And onone þe devull come & sett hym stridlyngis on hys bakk. 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 89, I bure thy grace vpon my bak, And, sumtymes, strydlingis on my nek. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 395 The women ride here stridling in the sadle. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie xl, I didna mean that she was to gallop, stridling on a horse, wi' you in a pock before her. |