grides

Verb

gride (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.
   • 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, →OCLC, page 408

   Synonyms:

   jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, job

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To travel through something.
   • 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, →OCLC, pages 300-301
3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
   • Fiercely flies
     The blast of North and East, and ice
     Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
     And bristles all the brakes and thorns
     To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
     Above the wood which grides and clangs
     Its leafless ribs and iron horns
     Together, in the drifts that pass
     To darken on the rolling...1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108

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