gropery

Noun

 * 1)  Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping.
 * 2) * 1991 (printed), Thomas Twining, A Selection of Thomas Twining's Letters, 1734-1804: The Record of a Tranquil Life, Edwin Mellen Press, page 257:
 * To look over your MS will be pure amusement &amp; gratification to me; &amp; it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, &amp; book-huntings, &amp; groperies, &amp; pokeries, &amp; sweepings, &amp; cobweb-catchings.
 * 1) * 1993, Kenneth Branagh (screenplay and film notes), William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 9780393311112), page 27:
 * She finds this unspeakably funny and barks herself off into the darkness whilst the gropery of her partner goes on apace. Exterior / CHAPEL YARD / Night / Drinking Fountain BEATRICE charges into view,
 * To look over your MS will be pure amusement &amp; gratification to me; &amp; it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, &amp; book-huntings, &amp; groperies, &amp; pokeries, &amp; sweepings, &amp; cobweb-catchings.
 * 1) * 1993, Kenneth Branagh (screenplay and film notes), William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 9780393311112), page 27:
 * She finds this unspeakably funny and barks herself off into the darkness whilst the gropery of her partner goes on apace. Exterior / CHAPEL YARD / Night / Drinking Fountain BEATRICE charges into view,