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▪ I. graip Sc. and north. dial.|ˈgreːp|
Also 4–9 grape, 6 graype.
[a. ON. greip fem. (recorded only in the sense ‘space between thumb and fingers, grip, grasp’; but cf. OSw. greep, mod.Sw. grep, Da. greb fork) corresponding to OE. gráp fem., grasp, f. OTeut. root *grī̆p: see grip, grope.]
1. A three- or four-pronged fork used as a dung-fork or for digging.
1459Durham Acct. Rolls (Surtees) 89, j scala, j Grape, j Shepecroke. 1483Cath. Angl. 163/1 A Grape; vbi forke, tridens (A.). 1559Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees 1853) 171 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks, [etc.]. 1785Burns Halloween xviii, The graip he for a harrow taks. 1799Robertson Agric. Perth 176 Potatoes..are raised in October..with the three pronged forks used for dung (provincially grapes). 1817Blackw. Mag. I. 161/1 A graip, a sort of large three-pronged fork used about farm offices. 1822Scott Pirate xvii, He shook his graip aloft. 1894Superfluous Woman (ed. 4) I. 74, I must just give her the graip..and bid her lift a potato.
†2. ? A handful, piece. Obs.—1
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 471 Greit Graipis of Gold his Greis [i.e. greaves]..And his Cussanis cumlie schynand.
▪ II. graip
variant of grape n.3
▪ III. graip
Sc. and north. dial. variant of grope v. |