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Gripe

Gripe (gripe)
n.(?)
Gripe
[See Grype.] (Zoöl.)
  1. A vulture; the griffin.
    [Obs.]

    Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak.

    Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] E. Jonson.

Gripe

Gripe (gripe)
v. t.
Gripe
  1. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
  2. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

    Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ? Robynson (More's Utopia).

  3. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

    How inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak.

Gripe

Gripe (gripe)
v. i.
Gripe
  1. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
  2. To suffer griping pains.
    Jocke.
  3. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
    R. H. Dana, Jr.

Gripe

Gripe (gripe)
n.
Gripe
  1. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

    A barren scepter in my gripe. Shak.

  2. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
  3. A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  4. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
  5. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  6. The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
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