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Definition of Graip
1. n. A dungfork.
Definition of Graip
1. a fork [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graip
Literary usage of Graip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"graip, GRIP, ». 1. The griffin. ... 150& graip, «. A dung-fork, an instrument
formed with three iron prongs for cleaning a ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"graip, GRAPE, GRIPE, a three, four, or six-pronged dung or delving fork. A pronged
shovel for lifting a mixture of straw and dung from the cow byre or ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To graip, ra 1. To grope, S.—AS grap-an, id. 2. To feel, in general. ... graip, i.
A dung fork, S. Burns.— Su. G. crepe, id. GRAY PAPER. ..."
4. The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens (1852)
"The usual mode of taking away wetted litter from the work-horse stable is to roll
it together with a graip, and then to throw it into a barrow, ..."
5. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"G. Stuart, Joco-Serious Discourse, 1686, p. 45. graip, GRAPE, to grope, to feel
by groping, to feel where one cannot see. ..."
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