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

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

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

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 Lewis Wallace

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

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

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

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

“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

So these two held communion on the shore Of melancholy Patmos, when a sound As of a griding chain was heard, and, lo!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan

Their three swords are three griding gashers, Glas, Glessic, and Clersag. 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 2 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

Now, after falling what depths God knows, I become numbly aware of a little griding sensation at my back, that communicated a whistling small vibration to my whole frame.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

So spake the elder, and cast forth a toothless spear and vain, That forthwith from the griding brass was put aback all spent, And from the shield-boss' outer skin hung down, for nothing sent.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris

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