grabble

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “[…] when he should come to pay his Reckoning he puts his hands into his Pockets, and keeps a grabling and a fumbling, and shaking, at last tells you he has left his Money at home; when all the company knew at first, he had no Money there, for every man can quickly find his own Money.”

2. fiil To search in a similar way using an implement.

   “[…] he proposes to spend the Afternoon at the Out-side of the Rock, in viewing the Sea, and looking for Oysters; so takes in his Hand his long Staff to grabble in Holes […]”

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

   “1719, Thomas d'Urfey, “Willey’s Intreague” in Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, London: J. Tonson, 1876 reprint, p. 195, When Nelly tho’ he teiz’d her, And Grabbled her and Squeez’d her, Cry’d, stay a little, I vow and swear I could kill ye, Another touch I can bear ye,”

4. fiil To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.

   “[H]e did so stare at the money, that I vows I thought he'd have rin away with it from the counter—so I grabbled it up, and went away.”

5. fiil To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).

   “The flailing mob of forty-fold took turns at throwing, each trying to lasso the sinking beast as it grabbled the air in blind terror in an attempt to keep its forelegs above the surface.”

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

   “1865, W. W. McCarty, “History of Captain W. W. McCarty’s Prison Life, and Southern Prisons,” in History of the 78th Regiment O.V.V.I., Zanesville, OH: Hugh Dunne, p. 302, […] Harry went into the potato patch and grabbled us some sweet potatoes […]”

7. fiil To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
8. fiil To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.

   “You will also take many Flounders […] without a boat, in the drains and watercourses of embanked lands, and even with your hands, for the fish will often seek shelter under your feet if wading; this latter method is termed ‘Grabbling.’”

9. fiil To fish on the grabble.

   “It was just after such a day that I grabbled fifty of the best salmon I ever saw—all fresh run from the sea.”

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

    “[…] there was instantly a dreadful confusion and uproar in the room, and such a grabbling and laughing; he could not catch the words […]”

11. fiil To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.

    “A Loft O Soule; soare up, doe not turmoyle Thy selfe by grabbling on a dunghill soyle:”

12. isim 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.

    “To lay / fish (up)on the grabble”