Gripple

From Middle English gripel, from Old English gripol, gripul ("able to grasp much; capacious"), from Proto-Germanic *gripulaz ("grasping, rapacious"), equivalent to grip + -le.

Alternative forms

• griple
• grippal, griple
• grippill Scotland

Full definition of gripple

Adjective

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Sprained.

From Middle English gryppel, from Old English *gripel, *grēpel, diminutive of Old English grep, grēpe ("furrow, ditch, drain"), equivalent to grip + -le. Cognate with German Low German Grüppel ("ditch").

Noun

1. A ditch; a drain.

From grip + -le.

Noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A hook.
2. (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:Ne ever Artegall his griple strong
  For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.

From grip + -le.

Verb

1. (transitive, rare) To grasp.