gripel (grip)

[ Upon my head they plac'd a fruitle crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe . Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 1. I robb'd the treasury, and at one gripe Snatch'd all the wealth so many worthy triumphs Plac'd there as sacred to the peace of Rome. Fletcher ( and another ), False One, il 3. IMG:content-2686.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2687.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of 2627 generic name given by Andreas Wagner in 1861 ( Grip hos a urus problematic us ) to the second specimen of the fo il reptilian bird now known as the Archæopteryx macrura. See Ar chæopteryx. Also written Gryphosaurus. Those That fear the law, or stand within her gripe , For any act past or to come. B. Jonson, Cat i line, i. 1. There are few who have fallen into the Gripes of the Inquisition, do scape the Rack. Howell , Letters, I. v. 42. 4. In pathol ., an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural. And yet more violently tortured with inward convulsions, and euill gripes, then by outward disease, or for Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 156. raine hostilitie. 5. Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip. Specifically-6. A pitchfork; a dung-fork. [Prov. Eng.]-7. Naut.: ( a ) The forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. See cut under stem. This day by misfortune a piece of ice stroke of our greepe afore at two afore no one, yet for all this we turned to doe our best. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 449. (b) The compa or sharpne of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.-8. Naut.: ( a ) pl. Lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck. (b) One of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.-9. A small boat. [Obsolete or prov. Within a small time he brought fifteene ve els called Eng.] IMG:content-2688.png:[blocks in formation] Burton.