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(archaic) simple past of thread
third-person singular simple present thrids, present participle thridding, simple past and past participle thridded
(archaic) To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. quotations
Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.
1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], canto II
And now he thrids the bramble bush.
1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
I began / To thrid the musky-circled mazes.
1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […]
(archaic) To make or effect (a way or course) through something.
plural thrids
(obsolete) A thread. quotations
Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thridBy griefly Lachesis was spun with paine
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie