Gride vs Gnide - What's the difference?
gride | gnide |
(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.
(obsolete) To rub (usually with or between the hands); bruise; crush; pound; break in pieces; rub out.
(obsolete) To crumble away.
As verbs the difference between gride and gnide
is that gride is (obsolete|transitive) to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab while gnide is (obsolete) to rub (usually with or between the hands); bruise; crush; pound; break in pieces; rub out.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 [...].