Definition of "grype"

One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […]

1758 , “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the Author, by N. Nickson, […], page 144

His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.

1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.3”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, page 430, column 1

O my child, grypes make their nests of gold though their coates are feathers; […]

1588 (first recorded performance; first printed in 1592), John Lilly, “Gallathea”, in The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (The Euphuist.) With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by F. W. Fairholt, […]., volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], published 1858, page 237

Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes ſharpe clawes, […]

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], signature E2, recto

The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey, the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde: […]

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], Devteronomie 14:12–13, page 427

I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast / Had carryed my crowne away, / My gorgett and my kirtle of golde, / And all my faire heade-geere.

a. 1767, “Sir Aldingar”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1885, page 45