gride

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  1. To pierce; cut. The kene cold blowes through my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. Last with his goad amongst them he doth go, And some of them he grideth in the haunches. Drayton, Mooncalf, ii. 512.
  2. To grate; jar harshly. The wood which grides and clangs Its leafless ribs and iron horns Together. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvii.
  3. To act or pass cuttingly or piercingly. 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. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 36. So sore The griding sword with discontinuous wound Pass'd through him. Milton, P. L., vi. 329.
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  1. A transposition of gird, from Middle English girden, gyrden, strike, cut: see gird. The transposition is not, however, of popular origin, as in the opposite cases bird from brid, bird from bride, girdle from griddle, etc., but is artificial, being a manipulation (apparently first by Spenser and adopted by subsequent poets) of the Middle English form girde. The word has nothing to do with Italian gridare, cry: see cry.
  2. from gride, v.
 

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