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noun

Grip n. (Zool.) The griffin. (Obs.)

Grip n. A small ditch or furrow.

Grip n.

An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel or suitcase. (Colloq.)

(Med.) The influenza; grippe.

verb

Grip v. t. To trench; to drain.

Grip v. t. To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

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Etymology of 'Grip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... baulked. There are so many knotted jungles of splintered rock, such frequent swamps, so much fallen timber. And, moreover, the watercourses and torrents were all new-bloated with the rain, so that we had to cast about for fords, and then to grip one another at stiff arm's length, so as not to get swept adrift whilst wading amongst the eddying boulders. And when at last we did come to the lake, we saw there in the gray dusk a thing which caused Ulus to ...

— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

... come down in this part of the country and asked for work. He had his little grip just like you got. The man said, 'Wait till I go to dinner.' Didn't say, 'Come to dinner,' and didn't say nothin' 'bout, 'Have dinner.' Just said, 'Wait till I go eat my dinner.' When he come back, Abe Lincoln was up there looking over his books. He'd ...

— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration

... down we go. Don't look below, but just keep your eyes in front of you, and never leave go of one grip till you make ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

... wild, last effort, and caught with one hand at the arm just within reach; his fingers closed upon it with a grip of iron, and another hand ...

— Nic Revel - A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land • George Manville Fenn

... could not be done, but I said we must attempt it. I was eager, and had not yet felt the awful grip of the cold. We left the Nufenen on our left, a hopeless steep of new snow buried in fog, and we attacked the Gries. For half-an-hour we plunged on through snow above our knees, and my thin cotton clothes were soaked. So far the guide knew we were more or less on the ...

— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc

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