Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab. · To travel through something. · To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA harsh grating sound.
From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.
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- Derivation mentiongirdenenm
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