I.any harsh, shrill, hissing, grating, or creaking sound; a creaking, hissing, rattling, buzzing, whizzing, whistling, etc. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets; cf.: “strepitus, clangor): serpentis,” Ov. M. 9, 65; cf. id. ib. 8, 287: elephantorum, Hirt. B. Afr. 72, 5; 84, 1; Liv. 30, 18; 44, 5: “stellionis,” id. 29, 4: “simiae,” Ov. M. 14, 100: “volant pinnarum stridore (locustae),” Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 104: “Troglodytis stridor, non vox,” Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 45: horrifer Aquiloni' stridor, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68 (Trag. Rel. v. 567 Rib.): “ne stridorem quidem serrae, cum acuitur (audiunt),” Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116; “id. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: procellae,” Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 47: “rudentum,” Verg. A. 1, 87; Ov. M. 11, 495: “januae,” id. ib. 11, 608: “dentium,” Cels. 2, 7; Plin. 11, 51, 112, § 267: “pinnarum,” id. 11, 29, 35, § 104: “lituum,” Luc. 1, 237: “catenae,” Juv. 14, 23: “harena, quae manu confricata fecerit stridorem,” Vitr. 2, 4 et saep.: “tribuni plebis stridor,” Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70: “stridor acutus,” Hor. C. 1, 34, 15; Sil. 6, 179; Petr. 122: “consonantium tristior stridor,” Quint. 9, 4, 37.—Plur.: “stridores aurium,” Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 45.
strīdor , ōris, m. strideo,