Definition of Grip

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Definition of Grip

Grip

The griffin.

A small ditch or furrow.

To trench; to drain.

An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.

A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel.

The influenza; grippe.

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Grip Quotations

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
Nolan Ryan

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Kwame Nkrumah

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
David Herbert Lawrence

Grip Translations

grip in Afrikaans is griep, gryp
grip in Danish is gribe
grip in Dutch is bemachtigen, grijpen
grip in German is fassen, fassen, packen
grip in Italian is impaccare, prendere
grip in Norwegian is gripe, grep, fengsle
grip in Portuguese is gripe, aperto
grip in Spanish is gripe, agarrar, empu ar, culata
grip in Swedish is tag, grepp, handtag

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