单词 | griding |
释义 | gridingadj. That grides. 1. Piercing, wounding; cutting keenly and painfully through. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > [adjective] > cutting or piercing piercinga1400 stabbing1600 hacking1602 flesh-transpiercing1609 ganching1614 griding1667 slashing1950 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > pierced > piercing goring1578 flesh-transpiercing1609 griding1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 329 So sore The griding sword with discontinuous wound Pass'd through him. View more context for this quotation 1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams i. xxii. 35 For brawny necks the griding claw remains. a1794 W. Jones Pindar's 1st Nemean Ode 81 Griding anguish pierc'd his fluttering breast. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair vi. xxix. 141 Set their griding forks and knives to work. 1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things iii. 713 So swift the motion of the griding steel. a1863 W. M. Thackeray Char. Sketches (1872) 341 The griding excitement which thrills through every fibre of the soul. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth 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. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > grating grating1718 griding1740 grinding1826 raspish1847 grounding1876 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 24 The Car..Which..dreadful roll its griding Wheels Over the bloody war. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 113 The heavy thunder's griding might. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 679 A griding clash of steel and a shrill cry of agony. 1851 J. B. Hume Oct. Gales in Poems Early Years 14 Oh, boist'rous sea! Oh griding gale! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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