LekhoriLekhoriTo feel with or use the hands; to handle.
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon to grope about a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
The parents found the couple kissing and groping.
An act of groping, especially sexually.
The old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.
An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.
From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip.
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