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grippings

grippings is the plural of gripping.

Meaning of gripping

Noun

gripping (plural grippings)

  1. The act of forming a grip.
    • His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126

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Questions about grippings

What is grippings the plural of?
Grippings is the plural of gripping.

Words near grippings in the dictionary

  1. gripping beasts
  2. gripping grain
  3. gripping off
  4. grippingly
  5. grippingness
  6. grippings
  7. Grippis
  8. gripple
  9. grippled
  10. grippleness
  11. gripples

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