To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.

To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.

To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.

To close the fingers; to clutch.

To pinch; to press; to compress.

To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.

To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.

To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.

To feel the colic.

To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.

Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.

Squeeze; pressure.

Oppression; cruel exactions.

Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.

In seamen’s language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.

Gripes, in seamen’s language, an assemblage of ropes, dead- eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.