To grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp.

transitive. To grip, grasp tightly. Cf. grope, v. 3a.

To clutch, seize firmly, or grasp tightly with hand, paw, claw, or the like; to grip. Also said of the hand.

transitive. To grasp firmly, grip, clutch; to hold firmly in one's grasp.

to grasp.

To hold tightly in a clutch or grasp.

? To hold fast.

transitive. To grip, grasp.

transferred. To clasp, hug.

transitive. To grasp (a spear). Obsolete.

To clasp tightly in the hand. To grip, grasp tightly (a weapon, etc.). Obsolete or archaic.

To hold tightly in the bent or closed hand; to hold with a tight or determined grasp.

transitive. To compress or hold tightly using an instrument operated by screwing, such as a vice or press; to put (an item) into a press or vice…

transitive to grasp (something) tightly.

To hold firmly as with the fingers; to grip.

transitive. Scottish (now chiefly Orkney and Shetland). To grip or squeeze with the fingers; to knead; (occasionally) to pluck out. Also intransitive…

transitive. To make firm or fast; to set or fix firmly or securely; also, to hold (a thing) fast.

transitive. To hold (a person) firmly around the upper body so as to restrain or immobilize. Also figurative.