grabbler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹæblə/|/ˈɡɹæbl̩ə/    美 /ˈɡɹæblɚ/|/ˈɡɹæbl̩ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who grabbles.; A person who grabs or grasps for something.
    — [He] once called diggers greedy gold grabblers.
  2. A person who grabbles.; One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands. Southeastern,US
    — a goober-grabbler (dated slang term for a person from the U.S. state of Georgia, literally, one who harvests peanuts by hand)
  3. A person who grabbles.; A person who catches fish by feeling with the hand. Southeastern,US
    — […] 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 […]
  4. A tool for grabbling.; An implement used for grabbling (digging up) tubers. Barbados,Southeastern,US
    — […] then Bobtail he got his bull-tongue plow and his grabbler and pretty soon there was his potatoes.
  5. A tool for grabbling.; An implement used to extract bodies from the water. obsolete
    — […] 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;

词形变化

grabblers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
goober-grabbler

词源

From grabble + -er.
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