grabble (third-person singular simple present grabbles, present participle grabbling, simple past and past participle grabbled)
(intransitive) To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
Synonyms: fumble, grope, grubble, root, rummage, Thesaurus:feel around
(intransitive, obsolete) To search in a similar way using an implement.
(transitive) To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
Synonyms: feel up, fondle, grope, Thesaurus:fondle
(transitive) To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
Synonyms: grab, seize, snatch
(transitive) To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
Synonyms: clutch, grip, Thesaurus:grasp
(transitive) To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
Synonym: grub
(transitive, obsolete) To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
(ambitransitive, now, Southeastern US) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
Synonym: noodle
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To fish on the grabble.
(ambitransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
Synonyms: babble, gabble, gibber, jabber
(intransitive, obsolete) To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.
Synonym: grovel
grabble (uncountable)
(obsolete) A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.
• gabbler
Source: Wiktionary
Grab"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Grabbling (.] Etym: [Freq. of grab; cf. D. grabbelen.]
1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.
2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
