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262 hollowing down, in a strong gale, as if rooting up the sea, as well as grevste,, a digging up, taking up of potatoes (R.).

grem$1$ [grē$ə$m],, 1) to be embittered, enraged. 2) to curse; to swear horribly; shø [‘she’] (was ) for dat ane and for dat ane, she called down evil upon so and so. 3) to grieve; grumble; complain, to g. ower onyting [‘something’], upon onyting , aboot somet’in’ lost , to g. and . In sense 3 also [grɩ̄m, grɩ̄$n$m]; to sit  — to sit , to sit complaining. — gremja, , to make angry (wroth, gramr), to embitter, and gremjask,, to get or be angry or embittered. and gremja (seg), , to grieve; complain.

grem$n$ [grē$n$m],, of very agitated sea on a shoal: to break with ground-swell, with violent heave, so that the sea-bottom is scraped; de sea was ower de boddom [‘bottom’]. to be classed with, , violent surf; ; or for, “grave”, to dig, “grave” and, , are used of ground-swell.

grema,, see ,

grems [græ‘ms],, a snatching; a greedy, sudden grasp at something; to mak’ a g. for onyting [‘something’]. . For an older a greedy grasp with the whole hand. ,
 * . and  grams, ,

grems [græ‘ms],, to grab; to grasp quickly and greedily at something, to g. for onyting. . For an older *. gramse, gramsa,, to grasp with the whole hand (greedily). ,

grep [grē$h$p],, a fork; forked implement, manure-fork. greip,, grepe,  graip, ,

grepster,, see , †gresi ger [gresi gē$ə$r], used adjectivally in phrases as: hit (dat) is g. g., it is very carefully done, excellently carried out, ironically of work badly done. , Uncertain origin. (?) to be compared with gresk,, unusual; admirable; excellent. The second part of the is either gerð,, a doing; a piece of work, or gear; the meaning of , however, agrees best with gerð.

gret, of * and “greet”, , see *,

grev, grave,, see ,

grice,, see ,

grik [gri̇̄k, grik],, dawn, de g. o’ day =,  : gri̇̄k; in other places more “grik” with short vowel. A form [grøk] is noted down on (in ); de o’day. By transference “de [grik] o’ de eenin’ [‘evening’]”, late evening twilight. and  from and : -ack, -ick, -ock) point back to a *grý-;  gry,, and   grýjandi, , dawn. For i and ø ( alternating in the same word) from original y, ý see Introd. V (also N.Spr. VII) §§ 11—12. * (preserved in the ) has changed to through of  greek, greik in the same sense. The vowel-sound in  shows that it is a Norn word. With  to interchange of i and ø in  Norn,   and,  An extended form, occurring occasionally, [grikɩn] and  [griki], de g. o’ de mornin’ ( and several places), is greking, gryking,, peep of day. —  ,
 * , * (: the added suffix,

grim [gri̇̄$2$m],, heavy surf; violent, roaring breakers against the shore, a g. upo de shore.