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Webster 1913 Edition

(grīd)

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Grided

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Griding

[For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See

a measure, and cf.

to strike, sneer.]

To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly;

as, the

griding

sword

Milton.

That through his thigh the mortal steel did

gride

Spenser.

Noun.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

The

gride

of hatchets fiercely thrown.
On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.

Whittier.

Verb.

[Eng. to cry.] To grate, or to cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as the griding sword.

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.