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Definition of Gripers
1. griper [n] - See also: griper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gripers
Literary usage of Gripers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"... and for many ages, nothing so familiar as this hacking and hewing, massacres,
reformation, and yet professed usurers, gripers, monsters of men, harpies, ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1852)
"The invention is such a combination and arrangement of the cutter, gripers, and
hammers, that when a rod of suitable dimensions is introduced into the ..."
3. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1836)
"A variation of the construction of these fingers or gripers, as applied to
locomotive cylinders, is shown in figs. 12, and 13'. Fig. ..."
4. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, and Repertory of Patent Inventions by William Newton (1836)
"A variation of the construction of these fingers or gripers, as applied to
locomotive cylinders, is shown in figs. 12, and 13. Fig. ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"This beautiful mechanism is contained in the interior of the impression cylinders,
which have openings along their circumference, through which the gripers ..."
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