gripplen.¹

/ˈɡrɪp(ə)l/

Forms: In Middle English gryppel, grippull.

Etymology: Parallel to modern Dutch greppel , grippel , gruppel , Low German grüppel < West Germanic *gruppilo- ; see grip n.²

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A small ditch or trench.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch

dikec893

gripa1000

ditch1045

fosselOE

water-furrowlOE

sow1316

furrowc1330

rick1332

sewer1402

gripplec1440

soughc1440

grindle1463

sheugh1513

syre1513

rain?1523

trench1523

slough1532

drain1552

fowsie?1553

thorougha1555

rean1591

potting1592

trink1592

syver1606

graft1644

work1649

by-ditch1650

water fence1651

master drain1652

rode1662

pudge1671

gripe1673

sulcus1676

rhine1698

rilling1725

mine1743

foot trench1765

through1777

trench drain1779

trenchlet1782

sunk fence1786

float1790

foot drain1795

tail-drain1805

flow-dike1812

groopa1825

holla1825

thorough drain1824

yawner1832

acequia madre1835

drove1844

leader1844

furrow-drain1858

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 212/2 Gryppe, or a gryppel, where watur rennythe a-way in a londe, or watur forowe [Pynson a grippull], aratiuncula.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Grup, groop, a trench, not amounting in breadth to a ditch. If narrower still it is a grip; if extremely narrow, a gripple.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† gripplen.²

Forms: In 1500s grypell, griple.

Etymology: < root of grip n.¹, gripe n.¹: compare grapple n.

Obsolete. rare.

1. A hook to seize things with.

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Grypell a hoke, hauet.

2. Grasp.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > firmness of hold > grip or grasp

gripOE

handgripOE

holtc1375

cleeka1400

handfast1540

handy-gripe1542

handigrip1579

gripple1596

fang1597

grasp1609

clutch1785

death grip1792

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N4^v Ne euer Artegall his griple strong For any thing wold slacke, but still vppon him hong.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

grippleadj.

Forms: Also Old English gripul, Middle English gripel, 1500s gripell, grippel, Scottish grippill, 1500s–1600s griple, 1800s Scottish grippal.

Etymology: Old English gripul , < grip-, weak root of grípan gripe v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgripple.

Obsolete exc. dialect or archaic.

1. Griping, niggardly, usurious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]

gnedec900

gripplea1000

fastOE

narrow-hearteda1200

narrow?c1225

straitc1290

chinchc1300

nithinga1325

scarcec1330

clama1340

hard1340

scantc1366

sparingc1386

niggardc1400

chinchy?1406

retentivea1450

niggardousa1492

niggish1519

unliberal1533

pinching1548

dry1552

nigh1555

niggardly1560

churlish1566

squeamish1566

niggardish1567

niggard-like1567

holding1569

spare1577

handfast1578

envious1580

close-handed1585

hard-handed1587

curmudgeonly1590

parsimonious?1591

costive1594

hidebound1598

penny-pinching1600

penurious1600

strait-handed1600

club-fisted1601

dry-fisted1604

fast-handed1605

fast-fingered1607

close-fisted1608

near1611

scanting1613

carkingc1620

illiberal1623

clutch-fisteda1634

hideboundeda1640

clutch-fista1643

clunch-fisted1644

unbounteous1645

hard-fisted1646

purse-bound1652

close1654

stingy1659

tenacious1676

scanty1692

sneaking1696

gripe-handed1698

narrow-souled1699

niggardling1704

snippy1727

unindulgent1742

shabby1766

neargoinga1774

cheesemongering1781

split-farthing1787

save-all1788

picked1790

iron-fisted1794

unhandsome1800

scaly1803

nearbegoing1805

tight1805

nippit1808

nipcheese1819

cumin-splitting1822

partan-handed1823

scrimping1823

scrumptious1823

scrimpy1825

meanly1827

skinny1833

pinchfisted1837

mean1840

tight-fisted1843

screwy1844

stinty1849

cheeseparing1857

skinflinty1886

mouly1904

mingy1911

cheapskate1912

picey1937

tight-assed1961

chintzy1964

tightwad1976

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 198/39 Capax, qui multum capit, andgetul, gripul, numul.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3657 Þu sulf ært swiðe gripel þine gumen sunden ȝefere.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 88 [She] vpon receit thereof..Was turned to a birde which yet of golde is gripple still.

1574 B. Rich Right Exelent Dialogue Mercury & Eng. Souldier sig. Cij ^v 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.

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 118 Grippell in workes, testie in words.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D4^v He gnasht his teeth, to see Those heapes of gold with griple Couetyse.

1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 95 The Gripple Wretch, who will bestow nothing on his poor Brother.

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 310 While gripple owners still refuse To others what they cannot use.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 285 Nae body wad be sae grippal as to tak his geer after they had gi'en him a pardon.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gripple, avaricious. ‘As gripple as sin’.

2. Gripping; tenacious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adjective]

fasta1398

gripple1513

nipping1566

griping?1573

grasping1577

gripping1623

tenacious1647

holding1681

vice-like1835

tenent1861

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 193 Amang the grippill rutis fast haldand.

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. C3^v The gripple Vulture argues me to bolde.

1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 61 Clutch'd with his gripple claws the Prince his prey.

Compounds

gripple-handed, gripple minded adjs.

ΚΠ

a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B^v That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded, and repining at his wives bounty!

a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. i. xix. 64 This gripple minded Prince.

1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 141 I was close, and gripple handed.

Derivatives

ˈgrippleness n. avarice, greed, niggardliness; also, greedy desire (to do something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun]

covetingc1315

covetisec1340

covetousness1486

cupidity1547

grippleness1571

overlustiness1583

over-desire1641

voraginousness1654

gluttony1704

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. To Rdr. sig. **.j^v Greedy gripplenesse of shameful gaine.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Hebbigheyt, greedinesse, Gripplenesse, or Niggardlinesse.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 295 A gripplenesse to save some of the stuffe.

1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Grippleness, greed. ‘'E inna so bad off as 'e makes out, 'tis nowt but grippleness makes 'im live so near.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

† gripplev.

Etymology: An alteration of grapple v., ? influenced by grip v.¹

Obsolete.

= grapple v. in various senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > strive or struggle against difficulties

deal1469

gripple1591

cope with1641

contend1783

strive1786

to grapple with1830

the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp

i-fangc888

gripc950

repeOE

befongOE

keepc1000

latchc1000

hentOE

begripec1175

becatchc1200

fang?c1200

i-gripea1225

warpa1225

fastenc1225

arepa1250

to set (one's) hand(s onc1290

kip1297

cleach?a1300

hendc1300

fasta1325

reachc1330

seizec1374

beclipc1380

takea1387

span1398

to seize on or upon1399

getc1440

handc1460

to catch hold1520

to take hold1530

to lay hold (up)on, of1535

grasple1553

to have by the backa1555

handfast1562

apprehend1572

grapple1582

to clap hold of1583

comprehend1584

graspa1586

attach1590

gripple1591

engrasp1593

clum1594

to seize of1600

begriple1607

fast hold1611

impalm1611

fista1616

to set (one's) hand to1638

to get one's hands on1649

1591 H. Smith Exam. Vsury i. 3 I am glad that I haue any occasion to griple with this sinne, where it hath made so many spoiles.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 213 The root..is more then a man can well griple in his hand.

Derivatives

ˈgrippled adj. anchored.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [adjective] > anchoring or anchored

anchored1576

anchoring1598

grippled1606

1606 T. Heywood If you know not Me ii, in Wks. (1874) I. 346 The distant corners of their gripled fleet.

ˈgrippling n. anchoring, mooring, attributive in grippling chain.

ΚΠ

1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iv. 34 The Vice Admirall..prepared himselfe for to fight..hanging his gripling chaine on the maine Mast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

n.¹c1440

n.²1530

adj.a1000

v.1591

单词	gripple
释义	gripplen.¹ /ˈɡrɪp(ə)l/ Forms: In Middle English gryppel, grippull. Etymology: Parallel to modern Dutch greppel , grippel , gruppel , Low German grüppel < West Germanic gruppilo- ; see grip n.² Obsolete* exc. dialect. A small ditch or trench. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch dikec893 gripa1000 ditch1045 fosselOE water-furrowlOE sow1316 furrowc1330 rick1332 sewer1402 gripplec1440 soughc1440 grindle1463 sheugh1513 syre1513 rain?1523 trench1523 slough1532 drain1552 fowsie?1553 thorougha1555 rean1591 potting1592 trink1592 syver1606 graft1644 work1649 by-ditch1650 water fence1651 master drain1652 rode1662 pudge1671 gripe1673 sulcus1676 rhine1698 rilling1725 mine1743 foot trench1765 through1777 trench drain1779 trenchlet1782 sunk fence1786 float1790 foot drain1795 tail-drain1805 flow-dike1812 groopa1825 holla1825 thorough drain1824 yawner1832 acequia madre1835 drove1844 leader1844 furrow-drain1858 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 212/2 Gryppe, or a gryppel, where watur rennythe a-way in a londe, or watur forowe [Pynson a grippull], aratiuncula. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Grup, groop, a trench, not amounting in breadth to a ditch. If narrower still it is a grip; if extremely narrow, a gripple. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † gripplen.² Forms: In 1500s grypell, griple. Etymology: < root of grip n.¹, gripe n.¹: compare grapple n. Obsolete. rare. 1. A hook to seize things with. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Grypell a hoke, hauet. 2. Grasp. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > firmness of hold > grip or grasp gripOE handgripOE holtc1375 cleeka1400 handfast1540 handy-gripe1542 handigrip1579 gripple1596 fang1597 grasp1609 clutch1785 death grip1792 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N4^v Ne euer Artegall his griple strong For any thing wold slacke, but still vppon him hong. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). grippleadj. Forms: Also Old English gripul, Middle English gripel, 1500s gripell, grippel, Scottish grippill, 1500s–1600s griple, 1800s Scottish grippal. Etymology: Old English gripul , < grip-, weak root of grípan gripe v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgripple. Obsolete exc. dialect or archaic. 1. Griping, niggardly, usurious. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] gnedec900 gripplea1000 fastOE narrow-hearteda1200 narrow?c1225 straitc1290 chinchc1300 nithinga1325 scarcec1330 clama1340 hard1340 scantc1366 sparingc1386 niggardc1400 chinchy?1406 retentivea1450 niggardousa1492 niggish1519 unliberal1533 pinching1548 dry1552 nigh1555 niggardly1560 churlish1566 squeamish1566 niggardish1567 niggard-like1567 holding1569 spare1577 handfast1578 envious1580 close-handed1585 hard-handed1587 curmudgeonly1590 parsimonious?1591 costive1594 hidebound1598 penny-pinching1600 penurious1600 strait-handed1600 club-fisted1601 dry-fisted1604 fast-handed1605 fast-fingered1607 close-fisted1608 near1611 scanting1613 carkingc1620 illiberal1623 clutch-fisteda1634 hideboundeda1640 clutch-fista1643 clunch-fisted1644 unbounteous1645 hard-fisted1646 purse-bound1652 close1654 stingy1659 tenacious1676 scanty1692 sneaking1696 gripe-handed1698 narrow-souled1699 niggardling1704 snippy1727 unindulgent1742 shabby1766 neargoinga1774 cheesemongering1781 split-farthing1787 save-all1788 picked1790 iron-fisted1794 unhandsome1800 scaly1803 nearbegoing1805 tight1805 nippit1808 nipcheese1819 cumin-splitting1822 partan-handed1823 scrimping1823 scrumptious1823 scrimpy1825 meanly1827 skinny1833 pinchfisted1837 mean1840 tight-fisted1843 screwy1844 stinty1849 cheeseparing1857 skinflinty1886 mouly1904 mingy1911 cheapskate1912 picey1937 tight-assed1961 chintzy1964 tightwad1976 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 198/39 Capax, qui multum capit, andgetul, gripul, numul. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3657 Þu sulf ært swiðe gripel þine gumen sunden ȝefere. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 88 [She] vpon receit thereof..Was turned to a birde which yet of golde is gripple still. 1574 B. Rich Right Exelent Dialogue Mercury & Eng. Souldier sig. Cij ^v 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. 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 118 Grippell in workes, testie in words. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D4^v He gnasht his teeth, to see Those heapes of gold with griple Couetyse. 1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 95 The Gripple Wretch, who will bestow nothing on his poor Brother. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 310 While gripple owners still refuse To others what they cannot use. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 285 Nae body wad be sae grippal as to tak his geer after they had gi'en him a pardon. View more context for this quotation 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gripple, avaricious. ‘As gripple as sin’. 2. Gripping; tenacious. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adjective] fasta1398 gripple1513 nipping1566 griping?1573 grasping1577 gripping1623 tenacious1647 holding1681 vice-like1835 tenent1861 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 193 Amang the grippill rutis fast haldand. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. C3^v The gripple Vulture argues me to bolde. 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 61 Clutch'd with his gripple claws the Prince his prey. Compounds gripple-handed, gripple minded adjs. ΚΠ a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B^v That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded, and repining at his wives bounty! a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. i. xix. 64 This gripple minded Prince. 1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 141 I was close, and gripple handed. Derivatives ˈgrippleness n. avarice, greed, niggardliness; also, greedy desire (to do something). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] covetingc1315 covetisec1340 covetousness1486 cupidity1547 grippleness1571 overlustiness1583 over-desire1641 voraginousness1654 gluttony1704 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. To Rdr. sig. *.j^v Greedy gripplenesse of shameful gaine. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck* Hebbigheyt, greedinesse, Gripplenesse, or Niggardlinesse. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 295 A gripplenesse to save some of the stuffe. 1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Grippleness, greed. ‘'E inna so bad off as 'e makes out, 'tis nowt but grippleness makes 'im live so near.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † gripplev. Etymology: An alteration of grapple v., ? influenced by grip v.¹ Obsolete. = grapple v. in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > strive or struggle against difficulties deal1469 gripple1591 cope with1641 contend1783 strive1786 to grapple with1830 the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp i-fangc888 gripc950 repeOE befongOE keepc1000 latchc1000 hentOE begripec1175 becatchc1200 fang?c1200 i-gripea1225 warpa1225 fastenc1225 arepa1250 to set (one's) hand(s onc1290 kip1297 cleach?a1300 hendc1300 fasta1325 reachc1330 seizec1374 beclipc1380 takea1387 span1398 to seize on or upon1399 getc1440 handc1460 to catch hold1520 to take hold1530 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 grasple1553 to have by the backa1555 handfast1562 apprehend1572 grapple1582 to clap hold of1583 comprehend1584 graspa1586 attach1590 gripple1591 engrasp1593 clum1594 to seize of1600 begriple1607 fast hold1611 impalm1611 fista1616 to set (one's) hand to1638 to get one's hands on1649 1591 H. Smith Exam. Vsury i. 3 I am glad that I haue any occasion to griple with this sinne, where it hath made so many spoiles. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 213 The root..is more then a man can well griple in his hand. Derivatives ˈgrippled adj. anchored. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [adjective] > anchoring or anchored anchored1576 anchoring1598 grippled1606 1606 T. Heywood If you know not Me ii, in Wks. (1874) I. 346 The distant corners of their gripled fleet. ˈgrippling n. anchoring, mooring, attributive in grippling chain. ΚΠ 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iv. 34 The Vice Admirall..prepared himselfe for to fight..hanging his gripling chaine on the maine Mast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹c1440n.²1530adj.a1000v.1591
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gripplen.1

† gripplen.2

grippleadj.

Compounds

Derivatives

† gripplev.

Derivatives

gripplen.¹

† gripplen.²