[f. STRIDE v. + -ING2.] That strides. Also fig.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Varicus, an aduerbe, whyche sygnyfyethe strydynge.
1665. D. Lloyd, State-Worthies (1670), 27. Men of quick and large striding minds loving to walk together.
1818. Keats, Endym., II. 24. What care, though striding Alexander past The Indus with his Macedonian numbers?
1899. N. Gould, Double Event, xix. He meant to give the horse a good striding gallop as soon as it was light.
1909. Eliz. Banks, Myst. Frances Farrington, 101. The somewhat striding walk of a tall woman.
b. Striding level: a spirit-level supported at both ends so as to straddle over intervening projections. So striding stand.
1878. Lockyer, Stargazing, 332. Place a striding level on the pivots.
1890. W. F. Stanley, Surv. Instrum., 222. In the construction of the striding level,… the two striding stands S S are carried down from the ends of the casing tube B of the spirit level.
