grabble

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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

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

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

What a foolish fellow you are, indeed, trying to grabble cherries out of the ground, as you do potatoes!

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

Do you think you have a right to grabble my Prior Riparian Rights?

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

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