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thdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. Grab hag, at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.] -- Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. […

One who seizes or grabs.

To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.

The quality of being integrable.

Capable of being integrated.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Grabb.

A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. Spenser.

or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab. (b) (Naut.)

An harpooner. Grabb.

A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.

A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.