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 Faërie 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.