Gripe

n.	1.	(Zool.) A vulture; the griffin. Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. - Shak. Gripe's egg an alchemist's vessel. - E. Jonson.
v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Griped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Griping.]
	1.	To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
	2.	To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ? - Robynson (More's Utopia).
	3.	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. How inly sorrow gripes his soul. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
	2.	To suffer griping pains.
	2.	to complain
	3.	(Naut.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
n.	1.	Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch. A barren scepter in my gripe. - Shak.
	2.	That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
	3.	(Mech.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
	4.	Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
	5.	Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; - chiefly used in the plural.
	6.	(Naut.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. Gripe penny miser; a niggard<- ; a pinchpenny? ->. - D. L. Mackenzie.

Noun	1.	gripe - informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here" Synonyms: squawk, beef, bitch, kick
Verb	1.	gripe - complain; "What was he hollering about?" Synonyms: beef, bellyache, grouse, squawk, holler, crab

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