Meaning of stride-legs | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level