thrid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

thrid

1. (archaic) 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.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II:

     Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.

   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:

     And now he thrids the bramble bush.

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     I began / To thrid the musky-circled mazes.

2. (archaic) To make or effect (a way or course) through something.

   to thrid one's way through a wood

Noun

thrid (plural thrids)

1. (obsolete) A thread.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid
     By griefly Lachesis was spun with paine

Anagrams

• drith, third

Scots

Noun

thrid (plural thrids)

1. third