graip, grape noun an iron pronged fork for use in farming and gardening; a pitchfork: most of us knew how to build a haystack but in the semi-dark, and with only one graip, it was no easy task. la15-. etymology: Scots; Older Scots graip, grape; northern Middle English grape, Old Norse greip ‘the space between the thumb and fingers’. Norwegian dialect greip ‘a fork, a dung-fork’; attested by JS and BW; forms graip, grape attested by DW and DW in DC |