Word Meanings - GRIPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.

Related words: (words related to GRIPER)

• EXTORTIONER
  , One who practices extortion.
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• BURTON
  A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.