Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To stand or sit with anything between the legs; to stand or step over. 2. (v. t.) To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

Multi-Version Concordance Bestride (1 Occurrence) Habakkuk 3:12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger. (See RSV)