graip
Scots
editEtymology
editFrom Old English grāp (“grip, grasp”) and/or *grǣpe (“grasping”); in either case akin to English grope and gripe.
Noun
editgraip (plural graips)
- A dungfork.
- 1785, Robert Burns, Halloween:
- He marches thro' amang the stacks, / Tho' he was something sturtin; / The graip he for a harrow taks, / An' haurls at his curpin;
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