gripple

adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Griping; tenacious; gripping.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.

   “Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse”

   “It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]”

3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal)Sprained.

noun

1. A ditch; a drain.
2. (obsolete, rare)A hook.
3. (obsolete, rare)A grasp; a grip.

   “Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.”

verb

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.'”