gride
verb/ˈɡɹaɪd/
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.
- derived from girden
Definitions
To pierce (something) with a weapon
To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
- 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.
To travel through something.
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
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A harsh grating sound.
- 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.
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No curated loop yet for gride. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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