gride

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

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, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
   • 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.

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.

• Ridge, derig, dirge, redig, ridge

gride

1. without

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡri.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: grì‧de

gride

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gridi, second-person singular present indicative of gridare
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 94–96; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] ché questa bestia, per la qual tu gride, ¶ non lascia altrui passar per la sua via, ¶ ma tanto lo ’mpedisce che l’uccide […].

     […] because this beast, at which thou criest out, suffers not any one to pass her way, ⁠but so doth harass him, that she destroys him.