English-Finnish translations for grabble

Definition of grabble

  • To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something
  • To search in a similar way using an implement#Etymology_1|implement
  • To touch with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way
  • To pick ''up'hastily, roughly or clumsily., ''A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,'London: Hooper and Wigstead, 1796, 3rd edition: “TO GRABBLE. To seize.”[https://archive.org/details/cu31924073798740]
  • To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something
  • To pull, lift or dig by searching with one's hands and fingers.B. W. Green, ''Virginia Folk-Speech,'Richmond, 1899, p.166: “Grabble, ''v.'To dig out of the ground with the hands.”[https://archive.org/details/wordbookofvirgin00gree]
  • To lift ''out'in a similar way using an implement#Etymology_1|implement
  • To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand
  • To fish on the grabble#Noun|grabble
  • To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say quickly, idly or foolishly
  • To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground
  • 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.T.F. Salter, ''The Angler’s Guide,'London: Sherwood, 1825, pp. 367-368.[https://archive.org/details/anglersguidebein00salt]

Examples

  • To lay / fish (up)on the grabble

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