grabble

Verb

Verb Forms: grabbled, grabbling, grabbles

• To grope or scramble, typically with the hands.
• To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
• To search in a similar way using an implement.
• To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
• To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
• To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
• To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
• To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
• To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
• To fish on the grabble.
• To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
• To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.

Noun

• A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.

Examples

• He had to GRABBLE through his mental lexicon to find a word that fit.
• To lay / fish (up)on the grabble

Synonyms

babble, beclasp, begrasp, begrip, belock, canoodle, caress, chuckle, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, coax, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, enclasp, faddle, fang, feel around, feel up, fond, fondle, forage, fumble, gabble, gibber, glaum, grab, grabble, grasp, grip, grope, grovel, grub, grubble, hang on, hold, hold on, hold tight, jabber, nab, nantle, nim, noodle, pet, pettle, poke, root, rummage, scramble, seize, shift, smuggle, snatch, stranglehold, take, tiddle, touch up