What is "bestrides"

Usage examples of "bestrides".

In due time a pair of sober, business-like spectacles bestrides the nose.

That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering at his back.

Wearing embroideredpalikari vest, puffy-sleevedpoukamiso , and pleatedfoustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway.