Plural of gride; multiple instances of harsh grating or grinding sounds.
Simply the plural form of 'gride,' adding the standard English '-s' suffix to the archaic verb/noun.
Like many archaic word plurals, 'grides' appears in Middle English poetry to create specific sound effects—poets would use these hard consonant sounds to mimic the very harshness they were describing.
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