Meaning of Gripping | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of forming a grip.

Equivalents

Examples

“His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.”

“The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]”

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