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Webster 1828 Edition

Griping

GRIPING

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ppr.

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

GRIPING

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Noun.

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

1.

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