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

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Example Sentences

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gride grided griding

Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.

From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There was something awe-inspiring in the strange, ominous look of sea and sky, and in the silence broken only by the grind and gride of screw and engine.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables

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.

From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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 George MacDonald

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 George Henry Blore

The horses struck sparks against the pave, the wheels grided, and the wagon-load went west, up the shadowy depths of Sixth Avenue, under the elevated structure, and stopped before Jefferson Market Court.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Upon the roof of the cabin the battle yet beat; against the sides the hostile vessels yet crushed and grided.

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

“This is a guy that hadn’t given up runs in a while and had been pitching really well in Blake. We just kept going. … We were able to keep griding and stayed with it.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Through his brain At once the griding iron passage found; Deluge of tender thoughts then rushed amain, Nor could his sunken eyes the starting tear restrain.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight

Alas! no medicine can heal the smart Wrought by the griding of the Dardan dart.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

Ivory, gem, and every hard-grained stone   That best resists the griding tool, may break:   But, save the form it once hath taken, none   Will ever from the graver's iron take.

From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose

The topic feels to me as if a sword was now griding its way through my frame.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

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