To lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch.
To seize and hold firmly in any way.
To tighten; clench.
To produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to gripe the bowels.
Hence To pinch; straiten; distress.
To lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch.
To get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser.
To suffer griping pains.
Nautical, to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.
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A ditch or trench: same as grip, 1.
; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. griping. Same as grip.
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Fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch.
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A handful.
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Forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of a tyrant or a usurer; the gripe of superstition.
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In pathology, an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural.
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Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip.
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Specifically A pitchfork; a dung-fork.
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Nautical: The forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. See cut under stem.
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The compass or sharpness of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.
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Nautical: plural Lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck.
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One of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.
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A small boat.
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A miser.
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A griffin.
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A vulture.