n. | 1. | (Zool.) The griffin. |
1. | A small ditch or furrow. | |
v. t. | 1. | To trench; to drain. |
n. | 1. | An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping. |
2. | A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; | |
3. | That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; | |
4. | A device for grasping or holding fast to something. | |
5. | Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable. | |
6. | A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel or suitcase. | |
7. | (Med.) The influenza; grippe. | |
v. t. | 1. | To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe. |
GRIP - Graph Reduction In Parallel. Simon Peyton Jones's GRIP machine built at UCL, now at the University of Glasgow. It has many processors (Motorola 68020 or other) on Futurebus with intelligent memory units. |