Grab

·noun A sudden grasp or seizure.

II. Grab ·noun A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

III. Grab ·vt & ·vi To gripe suddenly; to Seize; to Snatch; to Clutch.

IV. Grab ·noun An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them;

— specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, ·etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

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

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
grab
The large coasting vessel of India, generally with two masts, and of 150 to 300 tons. ♦ To grab. I...

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

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

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

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