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▪ I. gripping, vbl. n.1|ˈgrɪpɪŋ|
[f. grip v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of grip v.1; a taking firm grasp or hold (lit. and fig.); seizure.
1632in Barry Orkney (1805) App. 473 Act 40 Anent Gripping of Lands. a1658J. Durham Expos. Rev. i. (1680) 15 There is most sensible footing and, so to speak, gripping to be gotten by looking to the Mediator. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlii, A neglect of the higher things that belong to salvation, and also a gripping unto the things of this world. 1898Daily News 23 Sept. 6/5 The bruises caused..by gripping were recent.
b. attrib. (with reference to cable-traction).
1887J. Bucknall Smith Cable or Rope Traction 86 Advocating the Chicago type of grip..in preference to those provided with gripping wheels or rollers. Ibid. 99 The gripping apparatus provided upon the cars..is a device consisting of two movable jaws..which engage or release the cable at the will of the operator. 1899J. Pennell in Fortn. Rev. LXV. 121 The two gripping arms of the brake were applied by chains.
▪ II. † gripping, vbl. n.2 Obs.
In comb. gripping-iron, = grooping-iron, a carpenter's gouge.
a1500Ortus Voc. in Promp. Parv. 216 note, Runcina est quoddam artificium fabri lignarii gracile et recurvum, quo cavantur tabule, et una alteri connectatur; Anglicè, a gryppynge yron.
▪ III. gripping, vbl. n.3|ˈgrɪpɪŋ|
[f. grip v.2 + -ing1.]
= griping vbl. n.2
1852J. Wiggins Embanking 128 Gripping at 1½d. or 2d. per rod.
▪ IV. gripping, ppl. a.|ˈgrɪpɪŋ|
[f. grip v.1 + -ing2.]
That grips, clutches, clips, or grasps tightly.
1630Drummond of Hawthornden Flowers Sion, Cypress Grove 75 [Riches] are like to Thornes which laid on an open hand are easilie blowne away, and wound the closing and hard-gripping. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 20 The gripping Fingers stopt the Course of a Fluid. 1877Black Green Past. xxxviii. (1878) 305 We were shod not in gripping felt but in goloshes of an enormous size.
fig.1895Daily News 20 Apr. 7/5 Death, he rejoiced to say, had only cost them 20l. in spite of the gripping winter. 1896Athenæum 11 Apr. 487/1 There is..much that is genuine and gripping in the play.
Hence ˈgrippingly adv.
1934in Webster. 1961John o' London's 14 Dec. 664/1 It was grippingly well acted. 1969Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 13/5 Nearly all the work's varied utterances were similarly well characterised by the Group, the clarinet solo..grippingly so if with a certain unauthorised licence. |