grip

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Knowledge came hard because his mind worked slowly and painfully; therefore his grip was the tighter, and the habits of thought wrought out by exercise were now giving him a facility that cleverer men might envy.

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  1. noun A tight hold; a firm grasp: a drowning swimmer now safely in the grip of a lifeguard.
  2. noun The pressure or strength of such a grasp: a wrestler with an unmatched grip.
  3. noun A manner of grasping and holding: The crate afforded no comfortable grip.
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  • He didn't seem to realize that these days my grip was a lot harder than his. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-03 - March April
  • In his grip was the chunk of precious heartstone, the Heart of his Tribe. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • I know my grip is as cold as the glacier now, and that I must look awful, yet still I wish she would relent. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • From the rider's perspective, the ETV works like a standard cable-operated throttle - the throttle grip is still connected to cables, so the feel at the grip is the same —  Top Speed
  • There's just nothing you can do about it, you are just guessing where the grip is and making sure your senses become a lot more … you turn them on full power basically and just wait, making sure that you can react to every oversteer moment you have. —  Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
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grasp ·  hold ·  finger ·  fist ·  pressure ·  touch ·  thrust ·  jaw ·  gesture ·  stroke ·  clutch ·  shoulder

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grip:   grips ·  gripped ·  gripping
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English gripe, grasp and gripa, handful.

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  1. from Middle English grippen (preterit grippede, gripped, gripte, often grippet, grippit, past participle gripped, griped) (= Old High German chripphan, chriffan, Middle High German kripfen, kriffen, gripfen), seize, grip; a secondary verb, the primary being Anglo-Saxon grīpan, Middle English grīpen, English gripe: see gripe. The F. gripper, seize, grip, is from a Low German or Scandinavian form of gripe, q. v. Cf. grip, n.
  2. from Middle English grip, from Anglo-Saxon gripe (with short vowel) (= Middle High German gripe, grepe = Old High German grif, griph (in comp.), Middle High German grif, German griff), grip, grasp, hold, clutch, from grīpan (past participle gripen), gripe: see gripe, and cf. grip, v.
  3. Also gripe (see gripe); from Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (also diminutive gryppel: see gripple), a ditch, drain, = Old Dutch grippe, gruppe, greppe, a channel, furrow, = Low German gruppe (diminutive grüppel), a ditch, drain; allied to and prob. (with alteration of vowel, as in grit, from Anglo-Saxon greót) descended from Anglo-Saxon (only in glosses) greóp, grēp, earliest form (Kentish) groepe, a ditch, channel. A different but allied word appears in groop, q. v.
  4. Also gripe (see gripe); from grip, n.
 

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