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Definition of Gride
1. v. i. To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
2. n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Definition of Gride
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To travel (term through) something, of a weapon or sharp object. ¹
3. Verb. To produce a grinding or scraping sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gride
1. to scrape harshly [v GRIDED, GRIDING, GRIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gride
Literary usage of Gride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"Xenophon, in his Sympos. brings in Socrates as a principal actor ; no man merrier
then himself; and sometimes he would gride a cock horse scoffed at him for ..."
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