Gripe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gripe

Add: I. grasp, clutch, embrace :-- Seó ǽrene gripu ofer gléda gripe wealleð, Sal. 48. II. attack, assault, (1) by living creatures :-- Grimne gripe Gúðláf and Ósláf mǽndon, B. 1148. Þú þurh deóra gripe deáðe sweltest, Jul. 125. (2) by things, II. 2. (a) material :-- Þurh gáres gripe gást onsendan, An. 187. Hé hæfde him on handa hilde frófre (frore, MS.), gúðbilla gripe he had in his hand aid for war, for the assault of battle-bills, Vald. 2, 13. (b) non-material :-- Þǽr is wyrma slite and ealra wǽdla gripe, Wlfst. 209, 18. III. grasp, power, control, mastery, (1) by persons :-- Þín feorh beran in gramra gripe, An. 217: 953. (2) by things :-- In gléda gripe, Jul. 391. In þæs wylmes grund ... in gléda gripe, El. 1302. v. níd-, on-gripe, and passages at gripa. gripe

Related words: grípan;