gripe3+ (grip)

[ The gripe also biside the bere, No beest wolde to othere dere. Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 5. ( Hall i well.) 2. A vulture. [Cf. griffin, 1, 2.] Science, VIII. 275. constraining manner; with a griping pain. griplet, a. See gripple1. griplene t, n. See gripple ne . gripman (grip'man), n.; pl. gripmen (-men). A man who works the grip on a cable-railroad. The driver, or grip - man, then opened the valves admitting air to the engine. grippalt, a. Another spelling of gripple1. grippe (grip), n. [F., lit. a seizure, On each carriage 112 to 224 iron tongs or grippers are placed at regular distances from each other. Sci . Amer . Supp ., p. 8824. crane by the gripper on the car, a pouch is taken from the At the same time a pouch [mail-bag) car by the gripper on the crane. Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 106. (d) A device for holding the carbon of an arc-lamp and a isting in the regulation of its movements. The actual work of liberating the catch or the gripper , and feeding the carbon, is effected by gravity. Dredge's Electric Illumination , I. 383. See grippy . It was not until 1870 that the first patent for a grip - pul- Applet on's Ann . Cyc ., 1886, p. 122. grippy, grippie (grip'i), a. [