Meaning of misgrab | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A failed attempt to grab something.
2. A mistake.
   figuratively

Examples

“He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear.”

“I made a misgrab and it touched the saw and flew up.”

“All this helped, but nevertheless it was a hazardous undertaking. A slip or a misgrab and he would fall under his own engine.”

“All around was nothing but air, the endless abyss of Virga; a misgrab here would send you on a slow trip around the world, with the birds, bugs, and fish making a moving feast of you along the way.”

“It is easy for the American visitor to make a “misgrab” here because, blinded by the surface similarities, he fails to take the hidden differences into consideration.”

“Unfortunately, notwithstanding all his wisdom, he had made a misgrab, for Noah, the chief of the saved, was soon unmasked as a drunken sot who disported with his own daughters.”

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