gride

English

Etymology

From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)

(obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 408:
  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.
(obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 300-301:
  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 […]
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108:
  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 brine
  That breaks the coast.

Translations

To produce a grinding or scraping sound

Bulgarian: стържа (bg) (stǎrža), скърцам (bg) (skǎrcam)
Russian: скрежета́ть (ru) (skrežetátʹ)

Noun

gride (plural grides)

A harsh grating sound.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160:
  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.

Anagrams

Ridge, derig, dirge, redig, ridge

Garo

Adverb

gride

without

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡri.de/
Rhymes: -ide
Hyphenation: grì‧de

Verb

gride

(obsolete) Alternative form of gridi, second-person singular present indicative of gridare
- early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto I”, in Inferno, lines 94–96:
  […] ché questa bestia, per la qual tu gride, ¶ non lascia altrui passar per la sua via, ¶ ma tanto lo ’mpedisce che l’uccide […].
  […] because this beast, at which thou criest out, suffers not any one to pass her way, ⁠but so doth harass him, that she destroys him.