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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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