gripe

1) A husbandry tool, evidently a kind of fork.

Wright has examples in the northern counties from 1788: 1578 Item iiij shode forkes ... Item one iron grype, Middleton

1755 an iron gripe or fork, Yeadon.

places Middleton Yeadon
dates 1578 1755

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