gride

American  

[grahyd] / graɪd /

verb (used without object)

grided, griding

1. to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.

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verb (used with object)

grided, griding

1. to pierce or cut.

noun

1. a griding or grating sound.

gride British  

/ ɡraɪd /

verb

1. literary (intr) to grate or scrape harshly

2. obsolete to pierce or wound

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noun

1. literary a harsh or piercing sound

Etymology

Origin of gride

1350–1400; Middle English; metathetic variant of gird ²

Example Sentences

The retainers follow, the vaulted ceilings echoing back the sharp gride of their footsteps.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

My heart, with care and grief then gride,         Doth fail,         Doth quail;   My life steals from me at that hidden wound.

From England's Antiphon by MacDonald, George

Eventually they heard the elevator door gride on its grooves.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert

Well, good Malluch, the trumpet, and the gride of wheels, and the prospect of diversion excite me.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

We are vividly conscious of the summer's breeze which tumbles the pears in the orchard, and the winter's storm when the leafless ribs of the wood clang and gride.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry