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Grope, seize or sprawl
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grabble
Word definitions for grabble in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grabble \Grab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grabbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Grabbling .] [Freq. of grab; cf. D. grabbelen.] To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. --Selden. To lie prostrate on the ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To search with one's hands and fingers; to grope. 2 To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
Usage examples of grabble.
Lockhart stationed himself beside the greenhouse and focused his binoculars on the gap in the curtains and was surprised to see Mrs Grabble on the sofa in the arms of someone who was quite clearly not the Mr Grabble he knew.
Mr Simplon was getting up to, namely Mrs Grabble, it might be to his own advantage to do it for her.
It was during his absences that Mrs Grabble and Mr Simplon kept what Lockhart called their trysts.
Accordingly, on a hot afternoon in June, he went to the trouble of sending a telegram to Mr Grabble in Amsterdam recommending him to return home at once as his wife was dangerously ill, too ill in fact to be moved from the house.
It was not there twenty-five minutes later when Mr Grabble, driving with more reckless concern for his wife than her behaviour justified and less for other road users, hurtled through East Pursley and into Sandicott Crescent.
His collision with a naked Mr Simplon who had taken his courage in both hands and was scampering back to his own house had at least the merit of explaining exactly what and whom her husband had been doing in the Grabble house.
He had never met Mr Grabble in the flesh and naturally supposed that the naked man cowering on the ground at his feet was a sinner, and a wife-beater, come to repentance.
Mrs Simplon adding an extra sting to the statement by squirting the contents of an aerosol can of De-Icing Fluid, which Mr Simplon kept on a shelf in the hall for quite other purposes, through the letter box on to those shrivelled organs Mrs Grabble had recently found so attractive.
Mr and Mrs Grabble went to bed separately and shouted abuse at one another.
In short, discord reigned almost as cruelly as it did in the Grabble household, where Mrs Grabble finally packed her bags and took a taxi to the station to go to her mother in Hendon.
Driven to desperate measures and wading through sewage with his trousers rolled up, Mr Grabble had seized on the idea of using caustic soda.
Fortunately Mr Grabble had had the good sense to foresee this possibility and was out of the tiny room when it happened.
The two combined to produce chlorine and Mr Grabble was driven from his house by the poisonous gas.
Mr Grabble took the unwise step of trying to dam the flood and the caustic soda dissuaded him.
What a foolish fellow you are, indeed, trying to grabble cherries out of the ground, as you do potatoes!