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Webster 1913 Edition
Gride
Gride
(grīd)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Grided
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Griding
.] To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly;
as, the
. griding
swordMilton.
That through his thigh the mortal steel did
gride
. Spenser.
Gride
,Noun.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
The
On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.
gride
of hatchets fiercely thrown.On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.
Whittier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gride
GRIDE
,Verb.
T.
That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.
Definition 2024
gride
gride
English
Verb
gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)
- (obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To travel through something, of a weapon or sharp object.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- His poinant speare he thrust with puissant sway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
Translations
To produce a grinding or scraping sound
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