grabble (English, verb)
expansion: grabble (third-person singular simple present grabbles, present participle grabbling, simple past and past participle grabbled)
Senses:
glosses: To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To search in a similar way using an implement.
tags: intransitive
obsolete
glosses: To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
tags: transitive
glosses: To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
tags: transitive
glosses: To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
tags: transitive
glosses: To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
tags: transitive
glosses: To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
tags: obsolete
transitive
glosses: To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
tags: Southeastern
US
ambitransitive
glosses: To fish on the grabble.
tags: ambitransitive
obsolete
glosses: To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
tags: ambitransitive
glosses: To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Forms:
form: grabbles
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grabbling
tags: participle
present
form: grabbled
tags: participle
past
form: grabbled
tags: past