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gripe

[grahyp] verb, griped, grip⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
2. to suffer pain in the bowels.
3. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to tend to come into the wind; to be ardent.
–verb (used with object)
4. to seize and hold firmly; grip; grasp; clutch.
5. to produce pain in (the bowels) as if by constriction.
6. to distress or oppress.
7. to annoy or irritate: His tone of voice gripes me.
8. to grasp or clutch, as a miser.
9. Nautical. to secure (a lifeboat) to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.
–noun
10. the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
11. Informal. a nagging complaint.
12. a firm hold; clutch.
13. a grasp; hold; control.
14. something that grips or clutches; a claw or grip.
15. Nautical.
a. a lashing or chain by which a boat is secured to a deck or in position on davits.
b. Also called gripe piece. a curved timber connecting the stem or cutwater of a wooden hull with the keel.
c. the exterior angle or curve formed by this piece; forefoot.
d. the forward end of the dished keel of a metal hull.
16. a handle, hilt, etc.
17. Usually, gripes. Pathology. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME gripen, OE grīpan; c. D grijpen, G griefen; see grip, grope


griper, noun
gripeful, adjective
grip⋅ing⋅ly, adverb


1. whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.
gripe   (grīp)   
v.   griped, grip·ing, gripes

v.   intr.
  1. Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.
  2. To have sharp pains in the bowels.
v.   tr.
  1. Informal To irritate; annoy: Her petty complaints really gripe me.
  2. To cause sharp pain in the bowels of.
  3. To grasp; seize.
  4. To oppress or afflict.
n.  
  1. Informal A complaint.
  2. gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
  3. A firm hold; a grasp.
  4. A grip; a handle.

[Middle English gripen, to seize, from Old English grīpan.]
grip'er n.

Gripe

Gripe\, n. [See Grype.] (Zo["o]l.) 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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Griped; p. pr. & vb. n. Griping.] [AS. gripan; akin to D. grijpen, G. greifen, OHG. gr?fan, Icel. gripa, Sw. gripe, Dan. gribe, Goth. greipan; cf. Lith. graibyti, Russ. grabite to plunder, Skr. grah, grabh, to seize. Cf. Grip, v. t., 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 ? --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\, v. i. 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. (Naut.) 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\, n. 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. (Mech.) 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. (Naut.) (a) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. (b) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. (c) pl. 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.

Gripe penny, a miser; a niggard . --D. L. Mackenzie.
Language Translation for : gripe
Spanish: coger, atrapar,
German: fangen,
Japanese: 捕える

gripe 
O.E. gripan "grasp at, lay hold," from P.Gmc. *gripanan (cf. O.S. gripan, O.N. gripa, Du. grijpen, Goth. greifen "to seize"), from PIE base *ghrib- (cf. Lith. griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (1601).

Main Entry: 1gripe
Pronunciation: 'grIp
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: griped; grip·ing
transitive senses
: to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of gripe intransitive senses
: to experience gripes

Main Entry: 2gripe
Function: noun
: a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain —usually used in plural

gripe (grīp)
v. griped, grip·ing, gripes
To have sharp pains in the bowels. n.

  1. gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
  2. A firm hold; a grasp.

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