intransitive. To search for something with the hand, finger, a stick, etc.; to extend one's hands, etc., to ascertain one's position or find one's…

intransitive. to fathom about: to try what the arms will take in; to grope about. Obsolete. rare.

to feel (out) one's way and variants: to find one's way by groping or treading carefully; (figurative) to proceed cautiously or tentatively.

intransitive. To feel or search with the hands, to grope about. Sometimes to grope and grabble (cf. Dutch grapen en grabbelen).

intransitive. To poke, to stir; to rummage.