graip

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"'Give me the graip, John; give me the graip.

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  1. A Scotch form of grope.
  2. A dung-fork. [Scots.] The graip he for a harrow tak's. Burns, Halloween. Graip? … That is what we call a three-or four-pronged fork in my country. Geo. MacDonald, Warlock o' Glenwarlock.

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  1. = Swedish grepe = Danish greb, a dung-fork; cf. graip, v.
 

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