Definitions

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  • imp. of glide.

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  • noun Common misspelling of globe.
  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of glide. Glid.

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Examples

  • He seems to have strayed from the current vocabulary only in two other cases, both infelicitous -- "glode" for "glided," and "blosmy" for

    Shelley Sydney Waterlow 1911

  • OOh, an “Spaysedust” wot went “fizzpfftpop” in yur mowf and glode in teh dark! martoonie says:

    best to keep your liquor - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I plan to bring several scultpures, including a bust of me at 16 and my so-called gemstone glode.

    Moving - Everything but the Kitchen Sink? 2003

  • Sometimes through forests, deep like night, we glode, 4760

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Thus fed as the preterite of to feed and led as the preterite of to lead paved the way for pled as the preterite of to plead, and rode as plainly performed the same office for glode, and rung for brung, and drove for dove and hove, and stole for dole, and won for skun.

    Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb Henry Louis 1921

  • Almost 100 years after it was written Bread and Roses remains a favourite of Trade Union Choirs around the glode.

    Bread and Roses 1912

  • But it was when he was comin 'down the slippery birch that the weight of the bag made him rather more rapid than he wanted to be; an' so, when he an 'the bag struck groun', they nearly always bounced apart; an 'if the Injun failed to get his feet in time to ketch the sack on the first bounce, I ketched it on the second bounce as I glode by.

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • Through it all, daydream and nightly trance, radiant air and moony mist, before him glode the shape of Clementina, its every motion a charm.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • And the young moon glode through the startled void

    Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics Charles Sangster 1857

  • For example, ‘shape’ has now a weak præterite, ‘shaped’, it had once a strong one, ‘shope’; ‘bake’ has now a weak præterite, ‘baked’, it had once a strong one, ‘boke’; the præterite of ‘glide’ is now ‘glided’, it was once ‘glode’ or ‘glid’; ‘help’ makes now ‘helped’, it made once ‘halp’ and ‘holp’.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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  • past a tense glide

    April 7, 2011