gride

So a gride was an awful noise.

"You may now miss the gride."

"The gride and broom shall-" There was a raucous creaking sound that cut through the chamber.

"You invoked the gride and broom, didn't you?"

Happy Birthday Gride!

Arthur Gride: An elderly associate of Ralph.

Frame Gride (1999)

"Gride Maklin speaking.

Madeline thus has no reason to marry Gride and Nicholas and Kate take her to their house to recover.

"What's a gride?"

Gride has illegally gained possession of the will of Madeline's grandfather, and she will become an heiress upon the event of her marriage.

The two moneylenders convince Bray to bully his daughter into accepting the disgusting Gride as a husband with the promise of paying off his debts.

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.

Arthur Gride, an elderly miser, offers to pay a debt Ralph is owed by Walter Bray in exchange for the moneylender's help.

Illiterate, Very deaf and going senile, she ends up playing a large part in the denouement when she steals a number of papers from Gride, including Madeline's grandfather's will.

He is an extremely selfish man who has wasted his wife's fortune and is dying in a debtor's prison, owing vast sums of money to both Ralph and Gride.

The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.

Areas included in the parish are The Gride to the north-west, Leake Commonside and Lade Bank to the north, and Leake Hurns End to the south-east.

When they return to Gride's home after the aborted wedding, Ralph and Gride discover that Peg Sliderskew, Gride's aged housekeeper, has robbed Gride, taking, amongst other things, the will.

He fools himself that he is acting for the benefit of his daughter by agreeing to her marriage with Gride, but when he realises what he has done, he dies of grief before the marriage goes through, freeing Madeline from her obligations.

I heard the teeth gride as he bowed His forehead to the earth.