Definition of "gride"

gride

/ˈɡɹaɪd/

verb
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.
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  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.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 408
2. (obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, pages 300-301
3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
  Quotations
  Fiercely fliesThe blast of North and East, and iceMakes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,And bristles all the brakes and thornsTo yon hard crescent, as she hangsAbove the wood which grides and clangsIts leafless ribs and iron hornsTogether, in the drifts that passTo darken on the rolling brineThat breaks the coast.
  1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108
noun
plural grides
1. A harsh grating sound.
  Quotations
  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.
  1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160

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