Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
GRABBLE
Etymology
Verb
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
Noun
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.
Anagrams
• 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
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