Sentence:  Going through the woods, he <WSD>grabbled</WSD> acorns from under the snow, thinking to fling them in the hogshead, and find out if the jays would really eat them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To pull, lift or dig (something) ("out" of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.<ref>B. W. Green, "Virginia Folk-Speech," Richmond, 1899, p.(nbsp)166: “Grabble, "v." To dig out of the ground with the hands.”[https://archive.org/details/wordbookofvirgin00gree]</ref>