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gride

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɹaɪd/Sorted degirStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.

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