1. grip - Noun
2. grip - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe 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
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Rabindranath Tagore
It hits like a grip on a pig. Dutch Proverb
Pulling the devil by the leg is a bad grip. Irish Proverb
His fore feet though you sever, his grip he'll make good. English Proverb