Crossword-Solution: GRIPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gripe | n. | A vulture; the griffin. |
| Gripe | v. t. | To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch. |
| Gripe | v. t. | To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely. |
| Gripe | v. t. | 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. |
| Gripe | v. i. | To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe. |
| Gripe | v. i. | To suffer griping pains. |
| Gripe | v. i. | To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm. |
| Gripe | n. | Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch. |
| Gripe | n. | That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword. |
| Gripe | n. | A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel. |
| Gripe | n. | Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty. |
| Gripe | n. | Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural. |
| Gripe | n. | The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. |
| Gripe | n. | The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. |
| Gripe | n. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GRIPE (5)
Arme, Warriours, Arme for fight, the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day, fear not his flight; so thick a Cloud He comes, and settl’d in his face I see Sad resolution and secure: let each His Adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield, Born eevn or high, for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire.
Yet fear not for him! Think not that I shall interfere with Heaven’s own method of retribution, or, to my own loss, betray him to the gripe of human law.
One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness --- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious.
The reader may deem it singular that the head carpenter of the new edifice was no other than the son of the very man from whose dead gripe the property of the soil had been wrested.
Boh! you were best! Remember and tell me, the day you’re hanged, How you affected such a gullet’s-gripe! {20} But you, sir, it concerns you that your knaves Pick up a manner, nor discredit you: Zooks, are we pilchards, that they sweep the streets And count fair prize what comes into their net? He’s Judas to a tittle, that man is! Just such a face! Why, sir, you make amends.
Quotes with GRIPE (3)
You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God’s Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.
Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I write, and got no gripe!
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 145 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).