verb. (old).—1.  To seize: a frequent form of GRAB (q.v.).

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. To GRABBLE the bit; to seize any one’s money.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon. ‘You GRABBLE the goose-cap and I’ll frisk his pokes,’ you seize the fool, and I’ll search his pockets.

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  2.  (venery).—To grope; to fumble; TO FAM (q.v.).

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, 193.

        When Nelly, though he teized her,
  And GRABBLED her and squeezed her.

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