gride
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹaɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪd
Verb
editgride (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.
- Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, 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, pages 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
editTo produce a grinding or scraping sound
Noun
editgride (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
editGaro
editAdverb
editgride
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editgride
- (obsolete) Alternative form of gridi, second-person singular present indicative of gridare
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 94–96; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] 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.
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