gropplev.
/ˈɡrɒp(ə)l/ dialect.
intransitive. = grope v. 2b.
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1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xiv. 261 Tom..had gone off to the brook to ‘gropple’ in the bank for crayfish.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xiv. 251 Creeping brooks afforded good sport for small truants groppling about with their hands.
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v.1861- to do … wrong
- to do, give, lend borrowing
- to do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp take wreche
- to do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake
- to do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake of
- to do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake on,
- to do, have, nim , ta, or take wrake upon
- to do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake
- to do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake of
- to do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake on,
- to do, have, nim = take, ta, or take wrake upon
- to do, make one's wise
- to do, make sacrifice
- to do, make wait
- to do, make, etc great spoil
- to do, make, etc much spoil
- to do, make, etc spoil
- to do, make, receive, swear, etc fealty
- to do, make, render stead
- to do, perform or work the feat
- to do, put arrear
- to do, to make sembly
- to dock the entail
- to doctor up
- to dodge it