• Gride

    Origin

    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.

    Full definition of gride

    Verb

    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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