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Webster 1913 Edition


Gride

Gride

(grīd)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Grided
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Griding
.]
[For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See
Yard
a measure, and cf.
Grid
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.

Gride

,
Noun.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
The
gride
of hatchets fiercely thrown.
On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.
Whittier.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gride

GRIDE

,
Verb.
T.
[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.

Definition 2024


gride

gride

English

Verb

gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)

  1. (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.
  2. (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 [...].
  3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

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