Gripper

Gripper stands for:

• The hook (sewing technology) , the most important component of a sewing machine , knots the upper thread with the bobbin thread
• a gripping tool , for example as a clamshell grab on a loading crane or an excavator
• a gripping system in automation technology
• the front part of the pliers , with which you hold a workpiece or cut it through
• a system for sheet transport through the printing press
• a picker
• colloquially a gripping machine, which is a combination of vending machine and slot machine
• Abbreviation for birds of prey
• a Jewish collaborator of the National Socialists who betrayed Jews in hiding
• Bounty hunters in the Harry Potter world (original: Snatcher)

See also:

• The gripper
• The grabs

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.