gripe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.
2. v. To have sharp pains in the bowels.
3. v. Informal To irritate; annoy: Her petty complaints really gripe me.
4. v. To cause sharp pain in the bowels of.
5. v. To grasp; seize.
6. v. To oppress or afflict.
7. n. Informal A complaint.
8. n. Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
9. n. A firm hold; a grasp.
10. n. A grip; a handle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch.
2. To seize and hold firmly in any way.
3. To tighten; clench.
4. To produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to gripe the bowels.
5. Hence To pinch; straiten; distress.
6. To lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch.
7. To get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser.
8. To suffer griping pains.
9. Nautical, to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.
10. n. Fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch.
11. n. A handful.
12. n. Forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of a tyrant or a usurer; the gripe of superstition.
13. n. In pathology, an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural.
14. n. Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip.
15. n. Specifically A pitchfork; a dung-fork.
16. n. Nautical: The forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. See cut under stem.
17. n. The compass or sharpness of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.
18. n. Nautical: plural Lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck.
19. n. One of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.
20. n. A small boat.
21. n. A miser.
22. n. A ditch or trench: same as grip, 1.
23. ; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. griping. Same as grip.
24. n. A griffin.
25. n. A vulture.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, intransitive To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
2. v. archaic, transitive To seize, grasp.
3. v. intransitive To complain; to whine.
4. n. A complaint; a petty concern.
5. n. nautical A specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
6. n. obsolete grasp; clutch; grip
7. n. obsolete That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
8. n. engineering, dated A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
9. n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
10. n. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
11. n. nautical The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
12. n. nautical The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
13. n. nautical An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.), obsolete A vulture; the griffin.
2. v. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
3. v. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
4. v. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
5. v. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
6. v. To suffer griping pains.
7. v. (Naut.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
8. v. to complain.
9. n. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
10. n. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip.
11. n. (Mech.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
12. n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
13. n. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
14. n. The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
15. n. The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
16. n. An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. complain.
2. n. informal terms for objecting