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stride
1. an act of forward movement by an animal, completed when the legs have returned to their initial relative positions
2. Rowing the distance covered between strokes
3. Jazz a piano style characterized by single bass notes on the first and third beats and chords on the second and fourth


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I had this fellow's stride both on the clay outside and on the dust within.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
To be sure, they also learn in their way to stride on and stride forward: that, I call their HOBBLING.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
And as in races it is not the large stride or high lift that makes the speed; so in business, the keeping close to the matter, and not taking of it too much at once, procureth dispatch.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
 
 
 
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