strid
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of strid
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Northern-England, UK, dated)A 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.”
“On through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing waters”
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noun
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(Northern-England, UK, dated)A 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.”
“On through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing waters”
verb
- (form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of stride
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Etymology
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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