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thrid

/θɹɪd/

thrid is the simple past of thread.

Verb

thrid (third-person singular simple present thrids, present participle thridding, simple past and past participle thridded)

  1. (archaic) To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
    • 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 […], →OCLC, canto II
    • And now he thrids the bramble bush.1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
  2. (archaic) To make or effect (a way or course) through something.
    • to thrid one's way through a wood

Meaning of thread

Verb

thread (third-person singular simple present threads, present participle threading, simple past threaded or (archaic) thrid, past participle threaded or (archaic) thrid or (archaic) thridden)

  1. (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
  2. (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
    • to thread through narrow passages
    1. (figuratively, transitive) To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
      • He threaded his way through legal entanglements.
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
    • And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]1670, John Pettus, Fodinæ Regales […], London: Printed by H. L. and R. B. […], page 2
  5. (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
    • [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.2010 April 1, Gayla Marty, Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 177

See all 25 meanings of thread

Noun

thrid (plural thrids)

  1. (obsolete) A thread.
    • Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid
      By griefly Lachesis was spun with paine1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of thrid

Verb
third-person singular presentthrids
present participlethridding
past participlethridded
pastthridded
Noun
pluralthrids

Words that rhyme with thrid

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Questions about thrid

What does thrid mean?
Thrid means to pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
What is thrid the simple past of?
Thrid is the simple past of thread.
What part of speech is thrid?
Thrid can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce thrid?
Thrid is pronounced /θɹɪd/.
What is the past tense of thrid?
The past tense of thrid is thridded.

Words near thrid in the dictionary

  1. thrice-monthly
  2. thrice-weekly
  3. thricecock
  4. thricecocks
  5. thricely
  6. thrid
  7. thridace
  8. thridacium
  9. thridded
  10. thridden
  11. thridding

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