Now dial. Also 1 wrid, wryd, 7– ride. [OE. wríd, f. wrídan, wrídian 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 hæslwride.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 216. Ʒenim 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 sb.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., April, 313 (Dorset). A hazel-bush may contain many wrides.
