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grippling

grippling is the present participle and gerund of gripple.

Meaning of gripple

Verb

gripple (third-person singular simple present gripples, present participle grippling, simple past and past participle grippled)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete, rare, transitive) To grasp or grab.
    • 'If owt comes to Mulvaaney 'long o' you, I'll gripple you, clouts or no clouts on your ugly head, an' I'll draw t' throat twistyways, man. See there now.'1889, Rudyard Kipling, Life's Handicap, The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney

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Questions about grippling

What is grippling the present participle and gerund of?
Grippling is the present participle and gerund of gripple.

Words near grippling in the dictionary

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

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