gripple

American  

[grip-uhl] / ˈgrɪp əl /

adjective

British Dialect.

1. miserly; avaricious.

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Etymology

Origin of gripple

before 1000; Middle English grip ( p ) el, Old English gripul; gripe

Example Sentences

Far from the dehumanizing shed of automatons, the Gripple factory floor is bright, open, and beautiful.

From Inc

The first factory, in Sheffield, England, was part of a growing multinational engineering firm called Gripple.

From Inc

Heber's generosity has been nobly praised by Scott, who contrasts the hard-heartedness of other bibliophiles, those "gripple niggards" who preferred holding on to their treasures, with his friend's careless liberality.

From Project Gutenberg

The astonishing narrowness and illiberality of the lessons contained in some of those books is inconceivable by those whose studies have not led them that way, and would almost induce one to subscribe to the hard censure which Drayton has passed upon the mercantile spirit,— "The gripple merchant, born to be the curse Of this brave isle."

From Project Gutenberg

And from his beakèd mouth the demon blew A breath as of a hundred winds, and flew Downward aswoop upon the labouring bark, And, covered of the blear untimely Dark, Clutch'd with his gripple claws the Prince his prey, And backward through the tempest soared away, Bearing that royal burden; and his eyes Were wandering wells of lightning to the skies.

From Project Gutenberg