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Griff   Listen
noun
Griff  n.  
1.
Grasp; reach. (Obs.) "A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff."
2.
(Weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Griff" Quotes from Famous Books



... career as a savant; and the later years, when she performed her service as story-teller. Unquestionably, the first period was most important in influencing her genius. It was in the home days at Griff, the school days at Nuneaton nearby, that those deepest, most permanent impressions were absorbed which are given out in the finest of her fictions. Hence came the primal inspiration which produced ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton



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