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▪ I. gripple, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈgrɪp(ə)l|
In 5 gryppel, grippull.
[Parallel to mod.Du. greppel, grippel, gruppel, LG. grüppel:—WGer. *gruppilo-; see grip n.2]
A small ditch or trench.
c1440Promp. Parv. 212/2 Gryppe, or a gryppel, where watur rennythe a-way in a londe, or watur forowe [P. a grippull], aratiuncula. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Grup, groop, a trench, not amounting in breadth to a ditch. If narrower still it is a grip; if extremely narrow, a gripple.
▪ II. † ˈgripple, n.2 Obs. rare.
In 6 grypell, griple.
[f. root of grip, gripe: cf. grapple n.]
1. A hook to seize things with.
1530Palsgr. 228/1 Grypell a hoke, hauet.
2. Grasp.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. ii. 14 Ne ever Artegall his griple strong For any thinge wold slacke, but still upon him hong.
▪ III. ˈgripple, a. Obs. exc. dial. or arch.
Also 1 gripul, 3 gripel, 6 gripell, grippel, Sc. grippill, 6–7 griple, 9 Sc. grippal.
[OE. gripul, f. grip-, wk. root of grípan gripe v.1]
1. Griping, niggardly, usurious.
a1000Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 198/39 Capax, qui multum capit, andᵹetul, gripul, numul. c1205Lay. 7336 Þu sulf ært swiðe gripel, þine gumen sunden ȝefere. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1603) 85 b, [She] upon receit thereof..Was turned to a bird, which yet of gold is gripple still. 1574Rich Mercury & Soldier C ij b, The greatest cause that stirreth both these sortes [of Captaines] to seruice, as may be supposed, procedeth of one mocion, which is the gripell desyre they haue of Princes paye. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxvii, Grippel in workes, testy in words. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 31 He gnasht his teeth to see Those heapes of gold with griple Couetise. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 316 The gripple wretch who will bestow nothing on his poor brother. 1808Scott Marm. vi. Introd., While gripple owners still refuse To others what they cannot use. 1814― Wav. lxvii, Nae body wad be sae grippal as to tak his geer after they had gi'en him a pardon. 1876Whitby Gloss., Gripple, avaricious. ‘As gripple as sin’.
2. Gripping; tenacious.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xii. 193 Amang the grippill rutis fast haldand. 1604Drayton Owle 350 The gripple Vulture argues me too bold. 1880W. Watson Prince's Quest (1892) 61 Clutched with his gripple claws the Prince his prey.
3. Comb., as gripple-handed, gripple minded adjs.
1626Middleton Anyth. for Quiet Life i. i. 76 That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded and repining at his wife's bounty! a1632T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. i. xix. (1642) 64 This gripple minded Prince. 1647C. Harvey Sch. of Heart (1778) 110, I was close and gripple-handed.
Hence ˈgrippleness, avarice, greed, niggardliness; also, greedy desire (to do something).
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. To Rdr. 8 Greedy gripplenesse of shameful gaine. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. x. §2. 290 A grippleness to save some of the stuff. 1660Hexham Dutch Dict., Hebbigheyt, Greedinesse, Gripplenesse, or Niggardlinesse. 1882W. Worc. Gloss., Grippleness, greed. ‘'E inna so bad off as 'e makes out, 'tis nowt but grippleness makes 'im live so near.’
▪ IV. † ˈgripple, v. Obs.
[An alteration of grapple v., ? influenced by grip v.1]
= grapple v. in various senses. Hence ˈgrippled ppl. a., anchored; ˈgrippling vbl. n., anchoring, mooring, attrib. in grippling chain.
1591H. Smith Serm. Usury i. 3, I am glad that I haue any occasion to griple with this sinne, where it hath made so many spoyles. 1606Heywood If you know not Me ii. Wks. 1874 I. 346 The distant corners of their gripled fleet. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 167 The root..is more then a man can well griple in his hand. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. iv. 34 The Vice Admirall..prepared himselfe for to fight..hanging his gripling chaine on the maine Mast. |