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Meaning of GRABBLE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Grab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Grabbled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Grabbling}.] [Freq. of grab; cf. D. grabbelen.]
1. To grope; to feel with the hands.
         He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a
         grabbling and fumbling.               --Selden.
2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to
   grovel. --Ainsworth.
 
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