Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To grope or feel with the hands, as in the dark.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Scot. To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
  • intransitive verb to grasp or snatch at; to aspire to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Scotland To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
  • verb Scotland To grasp or snatch (at).

Etymologies

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Uncertain.

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  • "Thomas grabbed an oar and pushed on to a rock. Then he raised the sail and collapsed under it and had to be extricated from its drenching folds, glauming and swearing at Cassidy's old boat."

    - Frank O'Connor, 'Uprooted'.

    September 6, 2008