grope

  1. Verb.  (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
  2. Verb.  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.
  3. Verb.  To touch (another person) closely and sexually.
  4. Noun.  (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
  5. Noun.  (obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

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