Gride vs Bride - What's the difference?
gride | bride |
(obsolete) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
(obsolete) To travel (through) something, of a weapon or sharp object.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.
* Bible, (w) xxi. 9
* (1709-1773)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= An object ardently loved.
(obsolete) To make a bride of.
As verbs the difference between gride and bride
is that gride is (obsolete|transitive) to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab while bride is .As a noun bride is
a slant, a person of east asian descent.gride
English
Verb
- His poinant speare he thrust with puissant sway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde [...].
Anagrams
* *bride
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I will show thee the bride , the Lamb's wife.
- Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}