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单词 graip
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graipn.

Brit. /ɡreɪp/, U.S. /ɡreɪp/, Scottish English /ɡrep/
Forms: Also Middle English–1800s grape, 1500s graype.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse greip.
Etymology: < Old Norse greip (feminine) (recorded only in the sense ‘space between thumb and fingers, grip, grasp’; but compare Old Swedish greep , modern Swedish grep , Danish greb fork) corresponding to Old English gráp (feminine), grasp, < Old Germanic root *grῑp : see grip n.1, grope n.1
Scottish and northern dialect.
1. A three- or four-pronged fork used as a dung-fork or for digging.
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1459 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 89 j scala, j Grape, j Shepecroke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 163/1 A Grape; vbi forke, tridens (A.).
1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 159 The graip he for a harrow taks.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 176 Potatoes..are raised in October..with the three pronged forks used for dung (provincially grapes).
1817 Edinb. Monthly Mag. 1 161/1 A graip, a sort of large three-pronged fork used about farm offices.
1821 W. Scott Pirate II. iv. 79 He shook his graip aloft.
1894 Superfluous Woman (ed. 4) I. 74 I must just give her the graip..and bid her lift a potato.
2. ? A handful, piece. Obsolete. rare.
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1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 471 Greit Graipis of Gold his Greis [i.e. greaves]..And his Cussanis cumlie schynand.
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