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.

  1. derived from girden

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. To travel through something.

  3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA