Gripe vs Plaint - What's the difference?
gripe | plaint |
(obsolete) To make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).
(archaic) To seize, grasp.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
To complain; to whine.
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To suffer griping pains.
(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
(obsolete) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
* Shakespeare
A complaint; a petty concern.
(nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
(obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
(engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
(chiefly, in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
(nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus ; the griffin.
* Shakespeare
(poetic, or, archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
* 1827 , Maria Elizabeth Budden,
A complaint.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
An accusation.
As nouns the difference between gripe and plaint
is that gripe is a complaint; a petty concern while plaint is (poetic|or|archaic) a lament or woeful cry .As a verb gripe
is (obsolete|intransitive) to make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).gripe
English
Verb
(grip)- Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
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- (John Locke)
- How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
Synonyms
* (complain) bitch, complain, whineNoun
(en noun)- A barren sceptre in my gripe .
- the gripe of a sword
- the gripe of poverty
- Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
Derived terms
* gripe water ----plaint
English
Noun
(en noun)Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:
- In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint ?) that he could never more taste of joy.
- she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
- Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
