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.

Anagrams

• dirge
• ridge, Ridge