gride

From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

gride (third-person singular simple present grides, present participle griding, simple past and past participle grided)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto I, page 408:

     Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide / She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To travel through something, of a weapon or sharp object.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VIII, page 300-301:

     So ſtoutly he withſtood their ſtrong aſſay, / Till that at laſt, when he aduantage ſpyde, / 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 […]

3. To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

• Ridge, dirge, redig, ridge