Meanings (ES + gloss)
palpar
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
buscar a tientas • palpar • tantear
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.
In the hollow shades of the roof could be seen pale dangling arms of ivy which had crept through the joints of the tiles and were groping in vain for some support, their leaves bei…
a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon to grope about a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
agarrar • magrear • manosear • meter mano • sobar
To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
The parents found the couple kissing and groping.