stridelegs

stridelegs (not comparable)

1. Astride.
   • 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets — him I could always recognize — while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap — the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stridelegs upon the palisade.

   • 1896, James Matthew Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, page 160-161:

     So he stood stridelegs over Francie, who whimpered, " I wouldna have struck this one if that one hadna prayed for me. It wasna likely I would stand that."

   • 1917, May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven, page 91:

     Dorothy rode my bike stridelegs coming back, so that I could sit in the dog-cart.

stridelegs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strideleg