Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of stridelegs.
The two made the best of it by taking opposite ends of the house and sitting stride-legs over the roof, with their backs to the chimneys.
1888, Thomas Mason, Adam Dickson; or, Sae sweet, sae bonnilie, page 1821 more example
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 stride-legs upon the palisade.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
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