gripe

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To complain

   To complain; to whine.

   • After making The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003 (and griping to the press that he was “fed up with the idiots”), Sean Connery enjoyed 17 years of retirement before he died in 2020.
2. 2

   To annoy or bother.

   • What's griping you?
3. 3

   To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires…

   To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.

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   1. 4

      To pinch

      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.
   2. 5

      To suffer griping pains.

      • the griping of an hungry belly
   3. 6

      To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).

      • Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
   4. 7

      To seize or grasp.

      • Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
      • UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— / Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, / Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize / Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
      • Unclutch his griping hand.
   5. 8

      A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.

   6. 9

      A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.

   7. 10

      Grasp

      Grasp; clutch; grip.

      • A barren sceptre in my gripe.
      • The young peasant […] disengaged himself from Manfred's gripe […].
      • I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
   8. 11

      That which is grasped

      That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

      • the gripe of a sword
   9. 12

      A device for grasping or holding anything

      A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

   10. 13

       Oppression

       Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.

       • the gripe of poverty
   11. 14

       Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

   12. 15

       Alternative form of grype.

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