grabble

1. (intransitive)To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.

2. (transitive)To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.

3. (transitive)To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.

4. (transitive)To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).

5. (transitive)To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.

6. (Southeastern, US, ambitransitive)To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.

7. (ambitransitive)To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.

8. (intransitive, obsolete)To search in a similar way using an implement.

9. (obsolete, transitive)To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.

10. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To fish on the grabble.

11. (intransitive, obsolete)To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.

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