grinner (griner)

One who grins. grinningly (grin'ing-li), adv. In a grinning IMG:content-2683.png:[blocks in formation] brown marble. grip1 (grip), v.; pret. and pp. gripped, ppr. gripped, ppr. earliest form (Kentish) groepe, a ditch, channel. A different but allied word appears in groop, q. v.] 1. A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain. [Prov. Eng.] Than birth men casten hem in holes, Or in a grip , or in the fen. Havelok , 1. 2101. An' 'e ligs on 'is back i' the grip , wi' noän to lend 'im a shove. Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style. 2. Any kind of sink. [Prov. Eng.] grip2 (grip), v. t.; pret. and pp. gripped, ppr. gripping. [Also gripe (see gripe2 ); grip2, n.] To trench;; drain; cut into ditches or channels. [Prov. Eng.]