Word Meanings - GRUBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To feel or grope in the dark. Dryden.

GROPER
One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
GROPE
1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. 2. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not
AGROPE
In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.