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

W'en you talk dat a-way you fetches me, sho', en I'll tell you a tale 'bout de ole Witch-Rabbit ef I hatter git down yer on my all-fours en grabble it out'n de ashes.

From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo

And every minute their fingers grabble in the purses of nobles.

From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Evans, Caradoc

I nebber digs my taters up Wen dey's only right to grabble.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington

"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