Begrip

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp. transitive

    "Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]"

Etymology

From be- + grip. Compare begripe.

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