gride

English

Etymology

From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

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, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 408:

     Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide / 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, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, pages 300-301:

     So ſtoutly he withſtood their ſtrong aſſay, / Till that at laſt, when he aduantage ſpyde, / His poynant 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.
   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108:

     Fiercely flies
     The blast of North and East, and ice
     Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
     And bristles all the brakes and thorns
     To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
     Above the wood which grides and clangs
     Its leafless ribs and iron horns
     Together, in the drifts that pass
     To darken on the rolling brine
     That breaks the coast.

Translations

To produce a grinding or scraping sound

• Bulgarian: стържа (bg) (stǎrža), скърцам (bg) (skǎrcam)
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• Russian: скрежета́ть (ru) (skrežetátʹ)

Noun

gride (plural grides)

1. A harsh grating sound.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160:

     The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.

Anagrams

• Ridge, derig, dirge, redig, ridge

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Garo

Adverb

gride

1. without