grabble

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It’s that we want—and need—the ability to grabble with nuance and ambiguity that are inherent when our bodies and minds fail.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018

V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Happy dat de house am full So yuh'll hab toh trabble; Mister Trouble, stretch yoh laigs Libely down de grabble!

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

"Who gets me, I think, will have to swoop down in an aeroplane, and grabble me all up and fly away with me!"

From Patty's Suitors by Wells, Carolyn

He jump up, he did, en 'gun ter grabble in de quog-mire des ez hard ez he kin.

From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo