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
- (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. - (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 .... - To produce a grinding or scraping sound.