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

For “the wind bloweth where it listeth,” as Christ saith; we must not grabble nor search after the same.

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry

"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

Often raccoons, foxes, and squirrels grabble them up.

From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by Jones, B. W.