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gride

[grahyd] verb, grid⋅ed, grid⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.
–verb (used with object)
2. to pierce or cut.
–noun
3. a griding or grating sound.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; metathetic var. of gird 2

Gride

Gride\, e. i. [imp. & p. p. Grided; p. pr. & vb. n. Griding.] [For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See Yard a measure, and cf. Grid to strike, sneer.] To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. --Milton.

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. --Spenser.
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