Crossword clues for gripe
gripe
- Beef's good and ready for eating
- Beef is good and ready to eat
- Trivial complaint
- Moan and groan
- Express complaints
- Act curmudgeonly
- Pet peeve
- Curmudgeonly comment
- Curmudgeon's comment
- Letter to the editor, often
- Kvetch and grumble
- Express irritation
- Express dissatisfaction
- Complaint department item
- Complain, or complaint
- Betray crabbiness
- Be a fussbudget
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Griffin \Grif"fin\, Griffon \Grif"fon\, n. [OE. griffin, griffon, griffoun, F. griffon, fr. L. gryphus, equiv to gryps, Gr. ?; -- so called because of the hooked beak, and akin to grypo`s curved, hook-nosed.]
(Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
(Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
(Zo["o]l.) A species of large vulture ( Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the ``eagle'' of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. [Written also gryphon.]
An English early apple.
Grype \Grype\, n. [Gr. gry`f, grypo`s, griffin. See Griffin.] (Zo["o]l.) A vulture; the griffin. [Written also gripe.] [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gripan "grasp at, lay hold, attack, take, seek to get hold of," from Proto-Germanic *gripan (cognates: Old Saxon gripan, Old Norse gripa, Dutch grijpen, Gothic greipan, Old High German grifan, German greifen "to seize"), from PIE root *ghreib- "to grip" (cognates: Lithuanian griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (c.1600; compare bellyache). Related: Griped; griping.
late 14c., from gripe (v.). Figurative sense by 1934.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A complaint; a petty concern. 2 (context nautical English) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. 3 (context obsolete English) grasp; clutch; grip 4 (context obsolete English) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip. 5 (context engineering dated English) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel. 6 Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress. 7 (context chiefly in the plural English) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines. 8 (context nautical English) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. 9 (context nautical English) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. 10 (context nautical English) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted. 11 (context obsolete English) A vulture, ''Gyps fulvus''; the griffin. vb. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To make a grab (''to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon'' something). 2 (context archaic transitive English) To seize, grasp. 3 (context intransitive English) To complain; to whine.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A gripe is a simple form of clamp used in building a clinker boat, for temporarily holding the strake which is being fitted onto the one to which it is to be attached. The strake is relatively thin and wide so that it is necessary for the tool to have a long reach while only a small movement is required. This is achieved by taking two pieces of dense timber, typically oak, each of a length a little more than twice the widest width of the strake. A coach bolt (see carriage bolt) is fitted through the middle and adjusted so that the gripe will fit onto the land (the joint between the adjacent strakes) while admitting the point of a wedge between the free ends of the two parts of the gripe. The wedge is then tapped in so that the gripe grips the land, using the bolt as a fulcrum.
The name is pronounced with the 'i' as a long diphthong and is a form of the word 'grip'.
Category:Woodworking hand tools
Usage examples of "gripe".
We do get a lot of sidewallers sneaking in, and that gripes Banat especially.
The sound directed the efforts of Sigismund, though the dog had swum steadily away the moment he had the Genoese in his gripe, and with a certainty of manner that showed he was at no loss for a direction.
You should have heard them gripe when Lowboy sent him on that tour around the world.
But they gripe on and on in that mealymouthed whine so much that I want to tear their heads off.
If the inflammation is acute, the mouth is dry and parched, or as is more frequently the case, the flow of saliva is abundant and acrid, and, when swallowed, irritates the stomach and bowels, producing fever, diarrhea, griping pains, and flatulency.
The disease is accompanied with much nervous prostration, and is distinguished by severe pains in the abdomen of a griping nature, followed by frequent scanty and bloody stools, and much straining.
Raising his hand to his face, he began to call his sorcery but the effort was cut short when the mist evaporated and rough hands griped his wrists in a vicelike hold.
It gripes my soul to think of him sneaking through the corridors of the dun.
Such developments have attracted thousands of new residents to Florida, most of whom would never dream of griping.
She had just come about, with her larboard tacks aboard, and as he expected her wake showed that curious nick where, when the sheets were hauled aft, tallied and belayed, she made a little wanton gripe whatever the helmsman might do.
In the past, when he had been on the other end, Bragi's favorite gripes had been government and taxes.
He had also heard scandalous gossip about the company Queen Kiramé kept in her bedchamber, gripes about the idiocy and malevolence of King Caren of Angarossa, theories that Irith the Flyer was actually a minor goddess in disguise and her presence an omen of good fortune, and considerable discussion of the prospects for the coming harvest in the richer farmlands to the south, and what the effects would be on markets and the local livestock-based economy.
But such a star hath influence in his sword As rules the skies and countermands the gods More than Cimmerian Styx or Destiny: And then shall we in this detested guise, With shame, with hunger, and with horror stay, Griping our bowels with retorqued thoughts, And have no hope to end our ecstasies.
Some people griped that it was a near thing, pointing out that the drives were about to blow when we came crashing out into Earthspace, but take it from me, they'd have done whatever they needed to, to get the job done.
She was neither brisk nor lively with the wind much abaft the beam, but on a bowline she was as fast and weatherly as a man could desire, almost as fast and weatherly as the Surprise, and without her tendency to gripe and steer wild if an expert hand were not at the wheel During the frequent and oh so unwelcome calms he and the master changed her trim until they hit upon the improbable lay that suited her best -the haif-strake by the stern they had begun with - and then the Nutmeg steered herself.