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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Grasping; seizing; holding fast; pinching; oppressing; distressing the bowels.

Noun.

A pinching or grasp; a distressing pain of the bowels; colic.

In seamen's language, the inclination of a ship to run to the windward of her course.

griping

griping ‎(plural gripings)

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
- 1824, John Mason Good, The study of medicine: with a physiological system of nosology
  The gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation.