Definitions for grides

grides gride

Spelling: [grahyd]
IPA: /graɪd/

Grides is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in grides (degirs).

Definitions for grides

noun

  1. a griding or grating sound.

verb (used with object)

  1. to pierce or cut.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.

Origin of grides

1350-1400; Middle English; metathetic variant of gird2

Examples for grides

He went to her and begged her not to marry gride, but she thought it her duty.

Vainly did gride bemoan the loss of the money he had hoped to gain, and vainly did Ralph Nickleby, with curses, try to prevent.

gride, the miser who had plotted to marry Madeline, met almost as terrible a fate as Ralph's.

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.

Ralph, for his share, was to get some of the money the old man gride knew should be Madeline's.

He went to gride, too, but the hideous old miser only sneered at him.

The allusion to friends, and the offer of money, gride held to be mere empty vapouring, for purposes of delay.

Our swords rest in our sheaths; but famine marches each hour to gride and to slay.

gride looked at him as if he were petrified with astonishment, but did not speak; perhaps lacking the power.

gride gladly availed himself of the pretext for going to the window to see.

Word Value for grides
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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