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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Gripple

Grĭp'ple, n.

noun

n. A grasp; a gripe. [Obs.] Ne ever Artegall his gripple strong For any thing wold slack. Spenser

Grĭp'ple, a.

adjective

a. [Diminutive from gripe, q. v.] [Obs.] 1. Griping; greedy; covetous; unfeeling. Men of as prying eyes as afterward they proved of gripple hands. Fuller. 2. Grasping fast; tenacious. Spenser.