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▪ I. grabble, n.|ˈgræb(ə)l|
[f. grabble v.]
†1. A grapple or struggle. to come to a grabble: to come to handgrips. Obs.
1650Cromwell Let. 30 July (Carlyle), Our bodies of horse..came to a grabble with them.
2. Angling. to fish († lie) on or upon the grabble (see quots. 1726, 1787).
1726Gentl. Angler 149 To lie upon the Grabble, is when a running Bullet or flat Piece of Lead keeps the Line firm on the Bottom of the River; so that the Link, to which the Hook is fastened, may play about with the Current of the Water. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 168 Fishing on the grabble is when the line is sunk with a running plummet fast to the bottom, so that the hook-link plays in the water. 1861Illustr. Lond. News 4 May 425/1 The best way is to angle upon the grabble for them [eels] with a lobworm.
▪ II. grabble, v.|ˈgræb(ə)l|
Also 6–8 grable.
[Corresponds to Du. grabbelen (which has been used in all the senses below exc. 5), a frequentative of grabben grab v.]
1. intr. To feel or search with the hands, to grope about. Sometimes to grope and grabble (cf. Du. grapen en grabbelen).
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 294 Grabling all night in the dark..through wild Olive Trees, and high Rocks. 1581B. R. Herodotus 103 b, Where after they have placed hym, they leave hym grabling in that place, and departe their way. 1630God's Power & Prov. in Churchill's Collect. Voy. (1704) IV. 811 We were fain to grabble in the dark (as it were) like a blind Man for his way. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. iii. 13 Ile grable for Gudgeons or fish for Flounders. 1640Shirley Arcadia iii. ii, Thou must stoop..And grabble for't [gold] in ground. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. i. vi. 22 To what end is it, to groap and to grable so much in Wounds? 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. xiii, My Blood chills about my Heart, at the thought of these Rogues, with their bloody Hands grabbling in my Guts, and pulling out my very Entrails. 1727Philip Quarll 178 Grabling round a nautious Weed for fulsome Worms. 1823Ann. Reg., Chron. 141 They continued grabbling for about five minutes, as if looking for something they had lost. 1824Hist. Murder Weare 127 He was grabbling about in the water with a sponge. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 155 To wade through Hegel..is merely to grope and grabble and to gnaw at the root of one's own growth. 1869Lonsdale Gloss. s.v., ‘To grabble for trout;’ i.e. to grope in holes for them.
b. trans. with cognate obj. To feel (one's way).
1627W. D. tr. A. d' Audigier's Tragi-com. Hist. 37 Hee, being in the darke, grabling his way, with one hand upon the raile of the staires [etc.]. 1842Blackie in Tait's Mag. IX. 752 Sending the unaided pupil to grope and grabble his way by the help of them [grammars, etc.] only.
2. intr. To sprawl or tumble about on all-fours; to scramble (for money, etc.).
1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 1, To lie grabbling on the ground, humi prostratus jacere. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 202 A few Scratches on his Face, which..I suppose he got by grabbling among the Gravel, at the Bottom of the Dam. 1851S. Judd Margaret i. xvii, Some of the boys were..sent grabbling on their faces down the hill. 1888Berksh. Gloss. s.v., I drowed the apples among the bwoys an' let um' grabble vor um.
3. = grapple v. 8. rare.
1835Anster tr. Faustus ii. i. (1887) 47 With dragons let the old drake grabble. 1895E. Anglian Gloss., Grabble, to resist, to contend, to grapple with.
†4. trans. To handle rudely or roughly. Obs.
1684Dryden Disappointm. Prol. 60 The doughty bullies..Invade and grabble one another's punk. 1687Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, To Grabble or handle untowardly,..as, to grabble (or grope) a Wench. 1746Exmoor Courtship (E.D.S.) 376 Es wont ha' ma Tetties a grabbled zo. 1790J. B. Moreton W. Ind. Isl. 146 [They] grabble, grasp and jostle each other to get the best.
5. To seize, to appropriate to oneself.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3) s.v., To grabble the bit; to seize any one's money. 1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 581 The rich armour..and all the precious articles which decked Otho's pavilion they grabbled and got.
b. intr. To grap or snap at (something).
1837New Monthly Mag. L. 108 Every hungry dog..began to grabble at the tempting morsel.
Hence ˈgrabbling vbl. n.
a1654Selden Table-T. (Arb.) 99 He puts his hands in his Pockets, and keeps a grabling and a fumbling. 1687Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Grabbling, l'action de manier quêque Chose de mauvaise grace. 1691Tryon Wisd. Dictates Pref. 2 The Grabling of the poor dark Spirit of Man after Truth. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 1, A grabbling, contrectatio. |