grab

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• Grab

  ·noun A sudden grasp or seizure. II. Grab ·noun A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to grab

  To seize; to gripe suddenly.--Grose. Webster. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• to grab

  To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• grab-all

  n. a kind of net used for marinefishing near the shore. It is moored to a piece of floatingwood, an...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• grab service

  Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...

  The Sailor's Word-Book