▪ I. wride, n. Now dial.
(raɪd)
Also 1 wrid, wryd, 7– ride.
[OE. wr{iacu}d, f. wr{iacu}dan, wr{iacu}dian to put forth shoots, grow. Cf. Yks. writh, rithe.]
A shoot, stalk, or stem; a group or bush of stalks, etc., growing from one root.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss., Culmus, wyrð [Erfurt wryd]. 944 in Birch Cartul. II. 542 Þurh þone lea to þam miclan hæsl⁓wride. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 216 Ᵹenim æscþrote ænne wrid. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. Tab. 223 Letuce with other herbis in a wride. Ibid. ii. 207 Heere is an helful thyng, a wondir wride. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 743 The Franke Ozier hath no great stemme, but only a great wride or head neare the ground. 1669– [see ride n.3]. 1790 Oxford Jrnl. 21 Aug. 3/2 From a single oat.—One hundred, and thirty three wrides, or stalks. 1848 W. Barnes Dorset Gloss. 370 A wride of hazel or ash. 1862 Q. Rev. Apr. 313 (Dorset), A hazel⁓bush may contain many wrides. |
▪ II. wride, v. s.w. dial.
(raɪd)
[f. prec., or perh. a survival of OE. wr{iacu}dan, wr{iacu}dian. Cf. writhe v.2]
intr. To put forth shoots; to spread out.
| 1825 Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng. s.v. 1848 W. Barnes Dorset Gloss. s.v., The wheat da wride out well. 1873– in s.w. dial. use (Som., Dorset, Devon). |