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Rabbling
(gcide) | Rabble \Rab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rabbled (r[a^]b"b'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Rabbling (r[a^]b"bl[i^]ng).]
1. To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a
curate. --Macaulay.
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The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates
themselves rabbled on their way to the house. --J.
R. Green.
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2. To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without
intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] --Foxe.
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3. To rumple; to crumple. [Scot.]
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scrabbling
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Drabbling
(gcide) | Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Drabbling.] [???.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a
gown or cloak. --Halliwell.
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Grabbling
(gcide) | Grabble \Grab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Grabbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Grabbling.] [Freq. of grab; cf. D. grabbelen.]
1. To grope; to feel with the hands.
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He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a
grabbling and fumbling. --Selden.
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2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to
grovel. --Ainsworth.
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Scrabbling
(gcide) | Scrabble \Scrab"ble\ (skr[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Scrabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrabbling.] [Freq. of scrape.
Cf. Scramble, Scrawl, v. t.]
1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by
clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to
scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
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Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and
getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
--Bunyan.
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2. To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to
scribble; to scrawl.
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David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. --1.
Sam. xxi. 13.
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