"gripsome" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From grip + -some.",
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          "ref": "1837, Charles White, The Married Unmarried, volume 1, page 95:",
          "text": "[…] it's quite small, swipes like, and a'n't wholesome for us poor old bodies; it's quite gripsome like; […]",
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          "ref": "1900, Prescott Hartford Belknap, The Canalero, the Trooper, page 35:",
          "text": "(O God! that I, of all dolts, Had a forty-four gripsome Colt's!)",
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          "ref": "2015, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions:",
          "text": "Not so big, mayhap, but fierce beyond measure, cunning, and gripsome o'life.",
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        "Characterised or marked by gripping."
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        "(rare or dialectal) Characterised or marked by gripping."
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        "Characterised or marked by gripping."
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