2. Verb. (third-person singular of grab) ¹
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Definition of Grabs
1. grab [v] - See also: grab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grabs
Literary usage of Grabs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanical Handling of Material: Being a Treatise on the Handling of by George Frederick Zimmer (1905)
"DISCHARGING BY MEANS OF SKIPS AND grabs. BOATS and barges as well as railway
trucks usually deliver material at the point where the mechanical appliances ..."
2. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron (and Steel), Copper by Leonard Strong Austin (1921)
"grabs.—In large establishments hoisting rigs are used that are provided with
large clam-shell buckets or grabs. They take 5 to 10 tons of ore at a time, ..."
3. The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material: Being a Treatise on the by George Frederick Zimmer (1922)
"Perhaps the most frequently used appliances at this stage are skips and grabs.
To operate any kind of bucket for unloading purposes a crane of some ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... L. STAR grabs Perianth spreading. Fruit crowned with the withered or closed
perianth. Seed globular. ..."
5. Notes on Docks and Dock Construction by Charles Colson (1894)
"Dredging — Class of Appliances — grabs — Pump-dredgers — Bucket-dredgers —
Stationary Dredgers versus ... grabs are most efficient when soft material ..."
6. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"... and grabs down on it as if it might escape by flight. Finally, walking becomes
impossible, and the upper extremities may become useless except for wide ..."
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