Gripe

grip, v. [griped (gript), griping.] To catch with the hand, clutch; to seize and hold fast; to pain the bowels of, as if by pre ure or contraction; to pinch, distre . — v. To hold or pinch as with a gripe; to get money by hard bargains or exactions; to suffer griping pains. (Naut.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship. — n. Grasp; seizure; clutch; that on which the grasp is put; a handle; oppre ion cruel exaction; pinching distre ; spasmodic pain in the intestines. (Naut.) The forefoot; sharpne of a ship's stern under the water: pi. ropes, dead-eyes, and hooks, to secure the boats to the deck. [AS. grip an, Ic. and Sw. grip a, Skr. grah, to seize; E. grab, grope, grasp, not grapam, fame, far, pa or opera, fare end, GROOM ple, grapnel.] — Grip'er, n. — Grip, grYp, n. A grasp; a holding fast; a peculiar clasp of the hand; that by which anything is grasped. — v. [gripped (grYpt), -ping.] To give a grip to, gra6p, gripe. [F. gripper, f Ic. grip a?]