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# {{lb|en|transitive}} To grip suddenly; to [[seize]]; to [[clutch]].
#* {{RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients|chapter=7|passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to '''grab''' hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}▼
#: {{ux|en|I '''grabbed''' her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.}}
▲#* {{RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients|chapter=7|passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to '''grab''' hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make a [[sudden]] [[grasp]]ing or [[clutch]]ing motion (at something).
#: {{ux|en|The suspect suddenly broke free and '''grabbed''' at the policeman's gun.}}
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===Etymology 2===
From {{der|en|ar|غُرَاب}} and {{der|en|hi|-}} ''ghurb?'': crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship. {{etystub|en}}
{{root|en|ar|غ ر ب}}
{{wikipedia|grab (ship)}}
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===Pronunciation===
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===Etymology 1===
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