grip
/ˈɡɹɪp/ noun B2- A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.
Plural grips
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He told me to tell yer he’s got his collars and cuffs in dat grip for a scoot clean out to ’Frisco.
Thrust it into his pocket, most likely, never noticing that a corner of it had been left in the grip of the corpse.
As it is, I feel that young man’s grip on my throat now, and the father has twisted my wrist round in the effort to get the paper out of my hand.
I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands.
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