gripe
IPA: grˈaɪp
noun
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
- (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
- (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
- (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
- (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
- Alternative form of grype [(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.]
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
- (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.
- (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
- (intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
- (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
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