Gripe
Gripe , noun
[See Grype.]
(Zoology) A vulture; the griffin. [Obsolete]
Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
Collocations (1)
Gripe's egg , an alchemist's vessel. [Obsolete] — E. Jonson
Gripe , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon gripan; akin to Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Old High German gr{not transcribed}fan, Icelandic gripa, Swedish gripe, Danish gribe, Gothic greipan; compare Lithuanian graibyti, Russ. grabite to plunder, Sanskrit grah, grabh, to seize. Compare Grip, transitive verb, Grope.]
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?
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.
Gripe , intransitive verb
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.
(Nautical) 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
2.
to complain
Gripe , noun
1.
Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
A barren scepter in my gripe.
2.
That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
3.
(Mechanics) 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.
(a) (Nautical) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(b)
(Nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(c)
(Nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
Collocations (1)
Gripe penny or a , miser; a niggard<--; a pinchpenny? -->. — D. L. Mackenzie