GRIDED

Verb

grided

simple past tense and past participle of gride

Anagrams

• dirged, girded, ridged

Source: Wiktionary


GRIDE

Gride, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grided; p. pr. & vb. n. Griding.] Etym: [For gird, properly, to strike with a rod. See Yard a measure, and cf. Grid to strike, sneer.]

Definition: 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.

Gride, n.

Definition: A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. Whittier.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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