thrid

1. archaicpastsimple past of thread

present singular third person thrids · participle present thridding · participle past thridded · past thridded

1. archaicTo pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.

   And now he thrids the bramble bush.

   1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

   2 more examples

   Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.

   1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II

   I began / To thrid the musky-circled mazes.

   1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

2. archaicTo make or effect (a way or course) through something.

   to thrid one's way through a wood

plural thrids

1. obsoleteA thread.

   Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid By griefly Lachesis was spun with paine

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC