Citations:grabable

English citations of grabable

• 1834, Benjamin Franklin with William Temple Franklin and William Duane, “No. XIII”, in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: M'Carty & Davis, No. 171 Market Street, pages 495–496:

  The Drinker's Dictionary. […] He's glad. / He's grabable. / He's great-headed. / He's glazed. / He's generous. / He has boozed the gage. / He's as dizzy as a goose.

• 1910, Caroline C. Morewood et al., edited by R[obert] S[angster] Rait, English Episcopal Palaces (Province of Canterbury), London: Constable & Co., →OCLC, page 188:

  The idea had no meaning for his son's ministers, who saw in the estates of the bishops still unsurrendered — and grabable — ecclesiastical land. […]

• 1974, William M. Bueler, Roof of the Rockies: A History of Colorado Mountaineering, Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Pub. Co., ISBN 978-0-87108-068-4; 3rd edition, Golden, Colo.: Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-9671466-1-4, page 60:

  On the Hayden men's route these mounds were steep enough, and sufficiently lacking in solidly grabable holds, to call for careful climbing.

• 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang [Seraphim Trilogy; 1], page 491:

  […] swinging arms, hands, and whatever else was grabable under the star-spangled black blanket that was the New Year's Eve sky of the second millennium.