verb. (old).1. To seize: a frequent form of GRAB (q.v.).
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. To GRABBLE the bit; to seize any ones money.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogues Lexicon. You GRABBLE the goose-cap and Ill frisk his pokes, you seize the fool, and Ill search his pockets.
2. (venery).To grope; to fumble; TO FAM (q.v.).
1719. DURFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, 193.
When Nelly, though he teized her, | |
And GRABBLED her and squeezed her. |