Gride vs Grike - What's the difference?
gride | grike |
(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.
(chiefly, British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants
:* 1922': He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a '''grike . — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
:* 1973': The Crag is a sort of crag-shaped feature of limestone, rich in minerals and seamed with crevasses or ‘'''grikes ’ as they call them hereabouts. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, ''Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 157)
As a verb gride
is (obsolete|transitive) to pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.As a noun grike is
(chiefly|british) a deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.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 [...].