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Definition of Grabbled
1. grabble [v] - See also: grabble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grabbled
Literary usage of Grabbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Man of Iron by Richard Dehan (1915)
"He grabbled with his sunburnt fingers in the dust a little, and tried to lift a
hand to his perspiring chest. By the tin crucifix dependent from a leather ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Ho 's been having the poker, and he's grabbled a hole in the ash-nook ' (the
place underneath the fire-grate), [Eez- bin' evin t puo'lr'kur, ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1873)
"He's been having the poker, and he's grabbled a hole in the ash-nook ' (the place
underneath the fire-grate), [Eez' bin' ev'in t puo'h-'kur, ..."
4. Journal by Australian Ex Libris Society (1885)
"... Tia, Dolores, and Mateo; but stern prose represents the two former as " grabbled
own women," and the last as a " blundering blockhead. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"... when hemorrhage, from the interior, welled up, and, as quickly as possible,
was literally grabbled out in fragmenta. ..."
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