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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gripper

Gripper \Grip"per\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes.

  2. pl. In printing presses, the fingers or nippers.

Wiktionary
gripper

n. 1 a person or thing that grip#Verb something 2 a cover on the handle of a bicycle, tool, etc, that makes it easier to grip. 3 (context curling English) A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice 4 (context rail transport slang English) a ticket collector 5 (cx computing GUI English) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.

Wikipedia
Gripper

A gripper is something that grips things or makes it easier to grip things. It may refer to:

  • grippers, tools for building hand strength
  • a Robot end effector, the "hand" of a robot
  • a person working in a grip (job), a position held in filmmaking

Usage examples of "gripper".

Her hands slid down his shoulders and pulled open the grippers on the front of his shirt.

In the time required for his arm to perform that motion, one of the machines had crossed the cabin, in a movement whose speed and fluidity took his breath away, and laid a hand of clawlike grippers on his gun.

And as for going over a big ditch, I think we straddled one about fourteen feet across back there, and we can do better when I get my grippers to working.

A couple of extra pairs of grippers may be carried for emergencies, but I plan to use the same ones over and over again.

Without his quite willing it, the magical grippers captured the reins of a war-horse.

Pulling the grippers of his shirt loose, she ran her hands across his chest, tangled her fingers in his chest hair, and massaged his nipples.

It was a phocomelus, Eldon realized, mounted on his phocomobile, his combination cart and manual grippers which served as mechanical substitutes for his missing limbs.

Royan had fixed up two obsolete General Electric car-factory Waldo arms beside the bench, their spot-welding tips replaced with multi-segment talon-like grippers.

She snapped her grippers and a dozen neuters trotted up, sank flat to the grass in front of her.

Tibor rolled to the stove, relocked the cart's brake once more via the selenoid selector-relays, and sent his manual grippers to lift the pot.

Instead, grippers of enormous power were starting to close upon his arms and legs.