stride-legs

English

Adverb

stride-legs (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of stridelegs
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1888, Thomas Mason, Adam Dickson; or, Sae sweet, sae bonnilie, page 182:

     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.