GRABBLE

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

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