Grip

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A small ditch or furrow.

II. Grip ·noun The Griffin.

III. Grip ·add. ·noun The influenza; grippe.

IV. Grip ·add. ·noun A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel.

V. Grip ·vt A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

VI. Grip ·vt To Trench; to Drain.

VII. Grip ·vt An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

VIII. Grip ·vt That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

IX. Grip ·vt To give a grip to; to Grasp; to Gripe.

X. Grip ·add. ·noun Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

XI. Grip ·vt A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.