Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
- noun plural The raptorial orthopterous mantids or rear-horses. See
Raptoria .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
grasps - noun A tool used for
grasping
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Examples
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From this implied Latin verb root *hend-, we are certainly free to muse light-heartedly on how we can obtain *handus 'grasper' from it, and very curiously, noting on how it rhymes with the attested Latin word for 'hand', manus.
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From this implied Latin verb root *hend-, we are certainly free to muse light-heartedly on how we can obtain *handus 'grasper' from it, and very curiously, noting on how it rhymes with the attested Latin word for 'hand', manus.
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The small town grasper careens off into lala land.
Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election 2009
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So then our boy gives up hope of living by the land and becomes the vegetarian, super-nerd, cartoon life lesson grasper, girly, sporty, emotional, hypo-allergenic person that is our cultures refined icon (the other being the troubled, rough, goth-like, victim that culture loves to cast teens as.)
In Their Words: Industry Experts on Why Hunting Is In Decline Dave Hurteau 2008
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OEng. hentan, ON henda, Gothic fra-hinthan from which *handus 'grasper; hand' was then based.
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One would expect a hypothetical PIE u-stem **gʰóndus 'grasper; hand' to end up as **gantuz in Proto-Germanic but certainly not *handuz which rather suggests a non-existent PIE stem **kondʰ-u-.
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The young grasper Jimson, sitting smug and smirking, scheming his next rung-grab.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 14.1 of 31.1 2009
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One would expect a hypothetical PIE u-stem **gʰóndus 'grasper; hand' to end up as **gantuz in Proto-Germanic but certainly not *handuz which rather suggests a non-existent PIE stem **kondʰ-u-.
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Palin, however, DID need tricks (even though none of them worked) and she spoke like a sneering grasper at straws.
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Yeah, but living in Massachusetts, I can tell you that Romney was an irritating grasper, who saw the governorship as his launching pad from day one.
"Obamans think the smartest veep pick for Senator McCain would be ... MIKE HUCKABEE." Ann Althouse 2008
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