gride

Related to gride: Drambuie

gride

(ɡraɪd)
vb
1. (intr) literary to grate or scrape harshly
2. obsolete to pierce or wound
n
literary a harsh or piercing sound
[C14: variant of girde gird2]
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gride

- To scratch, scrape, or cut with a grating sound.
See also related terms for scrape.
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gride


Past participle: grided
Gerund: griding

Imperative
gride
gride
Present
I gride
you gride
he/she/it grides
we gride
you gride
they gride
Preterite
I grided
you grided
he/she/it grided
we grided
you grided
they grided
Present Continuous
I am griding
you are griding
he/she/it is griding
we are griding
you are griding
they are griding
Present Perfect
I have grided
you have grided
he/she/it has grided
we have grided
you have grided
they have grided
Past Continuous
I was griding
you were griding
he/she/it was griding
we were griding
you were griding
they were griding
Past Perfect
I had grided
you had grided
he/she/it had grided
we had grided
you had grided
they had grided
Future
I will gride
you will gride
he/she/it will gride
we will gride
you will gride
they will gride
Future Perfect
I will have grided
you will have grided
he/she/it will have grided
we will have grided
you will have grided
they will have grided
Future Continuous
I will be griding
you will be griding
he/she/it will be griding
we will be griding
you will be griding
they will be griding
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been griding
you have been griding
he/she/it has been griding
we have been griding
you have been griding
they have been griding
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been griding
you will have been griding
he/she/it will have been griding
we will have been griding
you will have been griding
they will have been griding
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been griding
you had been griding
he/she/it had been griding
we had been griding
you had been griding
they had been griding
Conditional
I would gride
you would gride
he/she/it would gride
we would gride
you would gride
they would gride
Past Conditional
I would have grided
you would have grided
he/she/it would have grided
we would have grided
you would have grided
they would have grided
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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'Humph!' You had better come in here, Gride. My man's out, and the sun is hot upon my room.
Such was old Arthur Gride, in whose face there was not a wrinkle, in whose dress there was not one spare fold or plait, but expressed the most covetous and griping penury, and sufficiently indicated his belonging to that class of which Ralph Nickleby was a member.
'And how have you been?' said Gride, feigning great interest in Ralph's state of health.
'Come, Gride,' said Ralph, at length; 'what's in the wind today?'
'I wouldn't deceive YOU, you know,' whined Arthur Gride; 'I couldn't do it, I should be mad to try.
'I didn't know but that perhaps somebody might be passing up or down the stairs,' said Arthur Gride, after looking out at the door and carefully reclosing it; 'or but that your man might have come back and might have been listening outside.
Whatever reasons there might have been--and Arthur Gride appeared to have anticipated some--for the mention of this name producing an effect upon Ralph, or whatever effect it really did produce upon him, he permitted none to manifest itself, but calmly repeated the name several times, as if reflecting when and where he had heard it before.
Naturally as this was said, it was not said so naturally but that a kindred spirit like old Arthur Gride might have discerned a design upon the part of Ralph to lead him on to much more explicit statements and explanations than he would have volunteered, or that Ralph could in all likelihood have obtained by any other means.
'But old Arthur Gride and matrimony is a most anomalous conjunction of words; old Arthur Gride and dark eyes and eyelashes, and lips that to look at is to long to kiss, and clustering hair that he wants to play with, and waists that he wants to span, and little feet that don't tread upon anything--old Arthur Gride and such things as these is more monstrous still; but old Arthur Gride marrying the daughter of a ruined "dashing man" in the Rules of the Bench, is the most monstrous and incredible of all.
'Now,' said Gride, 'for the little plan I have in my mind to bring this about; because, I haven't offered myself even to the father yet, I should have told you.
Shouldn't I have her Mrs Arthur Gride-- pretty Mrs Arthur Gride--a tit-bit--a dainty chick--shouldn't I have her Mrs Arthur Gride in a week, a month, a day--any time I chose to name?'
Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.