strid means A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
STRID — [Noun] A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed. From Middle English stryd, a byform of stryde, stride ("a step"), from the appearance that the river may be crossable with a stride. Unlike "ford" (which invites a slow, wet wade) or "gorge" (which looms as an impassable divide), a strid taunts with deceptive proximity—a leap just barely possible, or fatal. It is the slick lip of limestone where a mountain stream pinches to a knife’s edge, the mossy gap where children dare each other to jump, the moment when the earth seems to pause and ask: will you risk it? A strid is nature’s cruel joke—distance compressed to a breath, yet depth enough to drown in.
noun
- A place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.“The pair have reached that fearful chasm,
How tempting to bestride!
For lordly Wharf is there pent in
With rocks on either side.
This striding-place is called THE STRID,
A name which it took of yore:
A thousand years hath it borne that name,
And shall a thousand more.”