GRIPE

noun a vulture; the griffin.

2. gripe ·vi to suffer griping pains.

3. gripe ·noun grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

4. gripe ·vt to seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

5. gripe ·noun a device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

6. gripe ·noun that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.

7. gripe ·noun the piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

8. gripe ·noun pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines;

— chiefly used in the plural.

9. gripe ·vi to clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, ·esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

10. gripe ·noun oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

11. gripe ·vt to catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

12. gripe ·noun the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.

13. gripe ·vi to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.

14. gripe ·vt 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.

15. gripe ·noun 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.