griper

How to use griper in a sentence

• The griper was in the same dangerous predicament, and there appeared every probability that she would be nipped and destroyed.

  Notable Voyagers | W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

• Here Captain Lyon, in the "griper," was thrown anchorless upon the mercy of a stormy sea, ice crashing around him.

  The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 | Various

• Here Captain Lyon, in the griper, was thrown anchorless upon the mercy of a stormy sea, ice crashing around him.

  Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage | Richard Hakluyt