Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gnash

Gnash , transitive verb

[Old English gnasten, gnaisten, compare Icelandic gnastan a gnashing, gn{not transcribed}sta to gnash, Danishknaske, Swedish gnissla, Dutch knarsen, German knirschen.]

To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

Gnash , intransitive verb

To grind or strike the teeth together.
There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. — Milton