Meaning of grabbler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who grabbles.
2. A person who grabs or grasps for something.
3. One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands.
   Southeastern, US
4. A person who catches fish by feeling with the hand.
   Southeastern, US
5. A tool for grabbling.
   Barbados, Southeastern, US
6. An implement used for grabbling (digging up) tubers.
   Barbados, Southeastern, US
7. An implement used to extract bodies from the water.
   obsolete

Examples

“[He] once called diggers greedy gold grabblers.”

“a goober-grabbler (dated slang term for a person from the U.S. state of Georgia, literally, one who harvests peanuts by hand)”

“My room-mate, like myself, was fond of roasted potatoes. The patch was very convenient. We had to pass through it in getting to the cabin we occupied, and he was an expert grabbler.”

“[…] Darl had to grabble for her so I knew he could catch her because he is the best grabbler even with the mules in the way […]”

“2002, Bil Lepp, Inept, Impaired, Overwhelmed: Tall Tales from West Virginia and Beyond, Charleston, WV: Quarrier Press, “Grabbled,” p. 66, We were about to land our first monster catfish by hand. We were grabblers!”

“[…] then Bobtail he got his bull-tongue plow and his grabbler and pretty soon there was his potatoes.”

“[…] four Boats, and several Men in them, with Ropes and Grablers, searched the Thames a great part of Sunday, using all Opportunities to find the dead Body;”

“1767, The Annual Register, cited in Notes and Queries, 15 June, 1878, p. 478, After diligent search had been made in the river for the child to no purpose, a twopenny loaf with a quantity of quicksilver put into it was set floating from the place where the child, it was supposed, had fallen in […] the loaf suddenly tacked about and swam across the river, and gradually sunk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediately brought up with grabblers ready for that purpose.”

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