barn dance vs stride

barn dance

noun
  • A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance. 

verb
  • To take part in barn dancing. 

stride

noun
  • A long step in walking. 

  • The distance covered by a long step. 

  • A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. 

  • The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. 

verb
  • To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. 

  • To walk with long steps. 

  • To straddle; to bestride. 

  • To pass over at a step; to step over. 

How often have the words barn dance and stride occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )