Gripe
GRIPE, verb transitive [Latin rapio.]
1. To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.
2. To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.
3. To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.
4. To close the fingers; to clutch.
5. To pinch; to press; to compress.
6. To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.
7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.
GRIPE, verb intransitive To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.
1. To feel the colic.
2. To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.
GRIPE, noun Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.
1. Squeeze; pressure.
2. Oppression; cruel exactions.
3. Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.
4. In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.
5. Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.
6. Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.