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Word Meanings - GRIPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to GRIPPLE)

  • GRASP
    1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
  • GRIPER
    One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
  • GRASPER
    One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
  • GRASPING
    1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
  • GRASPLESS
    Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
  • GRIPEFUL
    Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
  • GRASPABLE
    Capable of being grasped.
  • SPENSERIAN
    Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene."
  • GRIPE
    A vulture; the griffin. Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak. Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. E. Jonson.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • HANDYGRIPE
    Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
  • ENGRASP
    To grasp; to grip. Spenser.

 

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