1. informal to complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.
2. to have sharp pains in the bowels.
3. informal to irritate; annoy: her petty complaints really gripe me.
4. to cause sharp pain in the bowels of.
5. to grasp; seize.
6. to oppress or afflict.
7. informal A complaint.
8. sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
9. A firm hold; a grasp.
10. A grip; a handle.

1. to make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
2. to seize, grasp.
3. to complain; to whine.
4. A complaint; a petty concern.
5. A specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
6. grasp; clutch; grip
7. that which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
8. A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
9. oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
10. pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
11. the piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
12. the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
13. an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

1. A vulture; the griffin.
2. grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
3. that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip.
4. A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
5. oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
6. pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
7.
8. the piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
9. the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
10. an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
11. to clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
12. to suffer griping pains.
13. to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
14. to complain.
15. to catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
16. to seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
17. 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.

1. to lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch.
2. to seize and hold firmly in any way.
3. to tighten; clench.
4. to produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to gripe the bowels.
5. hence to pinch; straiten; distress.
6. to lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch.
7. to get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser.
8. to suffer griping pains.
9. nautical, to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.
10. ; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. griping. same as grip.
11. fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch.
12. A handful.
13. forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of a tyrant or a usurer; the gripe of superstition.
14. in pathology, an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural.
15. something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip.
16. specifically A pitchfork; a dung-fork.
17. nautical: the forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. see cut under stem.
18. the compass or sharpness of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.
19. nautical: plural lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck.
20. one of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.
21. A small boat.
22. A miser.
23. A ditch or trench: same as grip, 1.
24. A griffin.
25. A vulture.

1. complain
2. informal terms for objecting