grabble

Example Sentences

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It’s that we want—and need—the ability to grabble with nuance and ambiguity that are inherent when our bodies and minds fail.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018

For “the wind bloweth where it listeth,” as Christ saith; we must not grabble nor search after the same.

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry

And every minute their fingers grabble in the purses of nobles.

From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Evans, Caradoc

To grabble the bit; to seize any   one's money.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark