Gride vs Glide - What's the difference?
gride | glide |
(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.
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
* Wordsworth
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
To cause to glide.
(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
The act of gliding.
(linguistics) Semivowel
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
A bird, the glede or kite.
As verbs the difference between gride and glide
is that gride is (obsolete|transitive) to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab while glide is to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.As a noun glide is
the act of gliding.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 [...].
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Verb
- The river glideth at his own sweet will.
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
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