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Gride

Gride \Gride\, n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.
--Whittier.

Gride

Gride \Gride\ (gr[imac]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grided; p. pr. & vb. n. Griding.] [For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See Yard a measure, and cf. Grid to strike, sneer.] To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
--Milton.

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.
--Spenser.

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gride

vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab. 2 (context obsolete intransitive English) To travel (term: through) something, of a weapon or sharp object. 3 To produce a grinding or scrape sound.

Usage examples of "gride".

English, which is what the mirror was speaking, the word gride meant dustpan.

So, as you can see, not only was there a bride and a groom, but there was also a gride and a broom.

Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.

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.

His arms strained, his back knotted, and his teeth grided until his neck grew hard and a fierce growl bellowed out.

Their three swords are three griding gashers, Glas, Glessic, and Clersag.

That financier Hrrouf is like a mamma snake and I hear old Hrrto just grided back in.

Waiting until the old port facility was relatively vacant, Hrriss and Hrrto grided there from First Village and got on board the scout just before Todd made a more public appearance.

He couldn't quite leave such negotiations to Prrid, Mrrunda, Hrrouf and the others who had grided in for that purpose.

But the mass of the personage to be grided quite shattered the composure of the bored grid operator.

All this past month there had been a steady stream of agitators, swelling the original numbers which Todd was sure Barustable had grided in.

With Joaz yet an ailing child, Grode Carcolo decided to try his chances against Banbeck Vale.