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Griping


GRIPING, participle present tense Grasping; seizing; holding fast; pinching; oppressing; distressing the bowels.

GRIPING,noun A pinching or grasp; a distressing pain of the bowels; colic.

1. In seamen's language, the inclination of a ship to run to the windward of her course.