释义 |
griding, ppl. a.|ˈgraɪdɪŋ| [f. gride v. + -ing2.] That grides. 1. Piercing, wounding; cutting keenly and painfully through. lit. and fig.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 329 So sore The griding sword with discontinuous wound Pass'd through him. 1782J. Elphinston tr. Martial i. xxii. 35 For brawny necks the griding claw remains. a1794Sir W. Jones Pindar's 1st Nemean Ode 81 Griding anguish pierc'd his fluttering breast. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. vi. xxix, Set their griding forks and knives to work. 1813T. Busby Lucretius iii. 713 So swift the motion of the griding steel. a1863Thackeray Charac. Sk. (1872) 341 The griding excitement which thrills through every fibre of the soul. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. xxvii. 270 He perished, as he deserved, by the pitiless, griding, contemptuous swords of those whom he had striven to seduce. 2. Grating, clashing; strident.
1740Dyer Ruins Rome 462 The car..Which..dreadful roll'd its griding wheels Over the bloody war. 1830Tennyson Poems 113 The heavy thunder's griding might. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 679 A griding clash of steel and a shrill cry of agony. 1851J. B. Hume Poems early Years, Oct. Gales 14 Oh, boist'rous sea! Oh griding gale! |