strid

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/stɹɪd/

noun

A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.

OriginMiddle English stryd →
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Meanings

nounstrid (plural strids)

plural strids

  1. Northern EnglandUKdatedA place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.

    On through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing waters

    1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC
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    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.

    1807, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer, 17-24
verb
  1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of stride

Origin

  1. Middle Englishstryd
  2. Englishstrid

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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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with strid

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Cite this entry
APA

strid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strid

MLA

“strid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strid. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strid,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strid.

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