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gryde

gryde is the obsolete form of gride.

Meaning of gride

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
  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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Forms of gryde

third-person singular presentgrydes
present participlegryding
past participlegryded
pastgryded

Questions about gryde

What is gryde the obsolete form of?
Gryde is the obsolete form of gride.

Words near gryde in the dictionary

  1. GRWM
  2. GRWMs
  3. GRWUS
  4. GRX
  5. gry
  6. gryde
  7. gryded
  8. Gryder
  9. Gryders
  10. grydes
  11. gryding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gryde (page history and authors); gride (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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