Grist, Griz. To snarl and show the teeth, as an angry dog or man (A.H.Wr.).—N.W.
Grizzle. To grumble, complain, whine, cry.—N. & S.W.
*Grom. A forked stick used by thatchers for carrying the bundles of straw up to the roof (A.B.G.).
*Gropsing. 'The gropsing of the evening,' dusk.—Obsolete.
'Both came unto the sayd Tryvatt's howse in the gropsing of the yevening.'—Wilts Arch. Mag. xxii. 227.
Ground. A field.—N.W.
'A whirlewind took him up ... and layd him down safe, without any hurt, in the next ground.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts p. 16, ed. Brit.
*Ground-sill stone. Quarrymen's term for one of the beds of the Portland oolite—useful for bridges, &c., where great strength is required (Britton's Beauties, vol. iii).
Ground-rest. The wood supporting the share, in the old wooden plough (D.). Rest is a mistake for wrest (Skeat).—N.W.