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Webster 1913 Edition


Gripe

Gripe

,
Noun.
[See
Grype
.]
(Zool.)
A vulture; the griffin.
[Obs.]
Like a white hind under the
gripe’s
sharp claws.
Shakespeare
Gripe's egg
,
an alchemist's vessel.
[Obs.]
E. Jonson.

Gripe

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Griped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Griping
.]
[AS.
gripan
; akin to D.
grijpen
, G.
greifen
, OHG.
gr[GREEK]fan
, Icel.
gripa
, Sw.
gripe
, Dan.
gribe
, Goth.
greipan
; cf. Lith.
graibyti
, Russ.
grabite
to plunder, Skr.
grah
,
grabh
, to seize. Cf.
Grip
,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare

Gripe

,
Verb.
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.

Gripe

,
Noun.
1.
Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
A barren scepter in my
gripe
.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gripe

GRIPE

,
Verb.
T.
[L.rapio.]
1.
To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.
2.
To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.
3.
To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.
4.
To close the fingers; to clutch.
5.
To pinch; to press; to compress.
6.
To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.
7.
To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.

GRIPE

,
Verb.
I.
To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.
1.
To feel the colic.
2.
To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.

GRIPE

,
Noun.
Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.
1.
Squeeze; pressure.
2.
Oppression; cruel exactions.
3.
Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.
4.
In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.
5.
Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.
6.
Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.

Definition 2024


gripe

gripe

English

Verb

gripe (third-person singular simple present gripes, present participle griping, simple past and past participle griped)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
  2. (archaic, transitive) To seize, grasp.
    • Robynson (More's Utopia)
      Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
  3. (intransitive) To complain; to whine.
    • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
      In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.
  4. To suffer griping pains.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
  5. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of R. H. Dana, Jr to this entry?)
  6. (obsolete, transitive) 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.
    • Shakespeare
      How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

  1. A complaint; a petty concern.
  2. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
  3. (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
    • Shakespeare
      A barren sceptre in my gripe.
  4. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
    the gripe of a sword
  5. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  6. oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
    the gripe of poverty
  7. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
  8. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  9. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  10. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
  11. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
    • Shakespeare
      Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.

Translations

Derived terms


North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gripa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Verb

gripe

  1. (Mooring) to grab, seize

Conjugation


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse grípa (to grab), from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (to grasp, grab). Cognate with Danish gribe, Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa, English gripe, Dutch grijpen, German greifen.

Verb

gripe (imperative grip, present tense griper, simple past grep or greip, past participle grepet, present participle gripende)

  1. to grab, grasp, grip
  2. to seize (grab, capture).
  3. to seize (take advantage of an opportunity).
  4. gripe inn - to intervene

Related terms

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈgriːpә/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

gripe (present tense grip, past tense greip, past participle gripe, passive infinitive gripast, present participle gripande, imperative grip)

  1. Alternative form of gripa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gripiz. Cognate with Old High German grif- (German Griff), Old Norse gripr.

Pronunciation

Noun

gripe m (nominative plural gripe or gripas)

  1. grip, clutch, grasp

Declension

Descendants


Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

  1. The flu, influenza.

Verb

gripe

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gripar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gripar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gripar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gripar

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • gripa (Colombia, Mexico)

Etymology

Borrowing from French grippe, from gripper (to seize), of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɣ̞ɾi.pe̞], [ˈgɾi.pe̞]

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

  1. (pathology) The flu, influenza.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • agriparse

Anagrams