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gripples

gripples is the plural of gripple.

Meaning of gripple

Noun (1)

gripple (plural gripples)

  1. A ditch; a drain.

Noun (2)

gripple (plural gripples)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A hook.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
    • Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about gripples

What is gripples the plural of?
Gripples is the plural of gripple.

Words near gripples in the dictionary

  1. grippings
  2. Grippis
  3. gripple
  4. grippled
  5. grippleness
  6. gripples
  7. grippling
  8. Grippo
  9. Grippos
  10. grippy
  11. grippy sock

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