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 thehands , as in the dark. - verb Scotland To
grasp orsnatch (at).
Etymologies
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Uncertain.
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Examples
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Lieberman's modus operendi is to glaum onto the closest source of power.
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Finnegans Wake 2006
bilby commented on the word glaum
"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