GRASP, GRASPED
ADJECTIVES
• HANDFASTED † with hands firmly grasped, hand in hand …1592
NOUNS
• BERTH a foothold, a grasp …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• FANG † a capture, a catch; also, a tight grasp, a grip …a1400-50
• HANDGRIP grasp, seizure with the hand …a1300
• HANDGRIPING † grasp, seizure with the hand …1700
• HANDIGRIPING † grasp, seizure with the hand …1577
• HANDY-GRIP † a grasp, seizure with the hand …a1300
• YOKE a grip, a grasp, a hold …1892 Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
• HENTER † one who seizes; a grasper; a thief; a holder or seizer of that which does not belong to him …c1374
VERBS
• BEFONG † to lay hold on, to seize, to grasp, to catch …a1000
• CLITCH to clutch; to grasp tightly …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
• FANG † to lay hold of; to grasp; to hold; to seize; to clasp. to embrace …c1200
• FAST-HAND † to grasp tightly …1632
• GAFFLE to grasp, to seize; to take hold of and carry; to steal, to shoplift, to swindle; to arrest …1900 Amer. dial.
• GRAFF to grasp …1922 Amer. dial.
• GRUBBLE to feel; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …L17 Brit. sl.
• GUDDLE to do sexual foreplay; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …E19 Brit. sl.
• HANDFAST † to grasp, to seize with the hand; to take fast hold of …c1530
• IMPALM * to grasp or take in the palm of the hand …1611
• LATCH † to take hold of, to grasp, to seize, esp. with the hand or claws; to clasp, to embrace …c1000
• MUCKLE ON TO vb. to seize firmly, to grasp …1977 Amer. dial.
• NAB to catch or grasp a person, usually unawares, esp. to lay hold of or capture a malefactor; to apprehend and place under arrest …1686 orig. criminals’ sl.
• NEVEL to take hold of with the fist; to grasp, to pluck out …1824 Sc.
• RAUNCH AND SCRAUNCH to snatch greedily; to grasp at …B1900 Eng. dial.
• UMBEGRIP † to grasp …a1400
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