Usually means: Search or grope around clumsily.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word grabble:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. grabble: Merriam-Webster
  2. grabble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grabble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grabble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grabble: Wordnik
  6. grabble: Wiktionary
  7. grabble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. grabble: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Grabble, grabble: Dictionary.com
  10. Grabble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Grabble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. grabble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Grabble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. grabble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. grabble: FreeDictionary.org
  16. grabble: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. grabble: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grabble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Grabble: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grabbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grabble)

verb:  (intransitive) To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To search in a similar way using an implement.
verb:  (transitive) To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
verb:  (transitive) To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb:  (transitive) To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
verb:  (transitive) To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, now Southeastern US) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To fish on the grabble.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.
noun:  (obsolete) A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.

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