famble

noun

1. (obsolete, slang)A hand.

   “We clap our fambles.”

   “A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."”

   “I'm keeping my fambles clean on this trip.”

verb

1. (obsolete)To stammer.

   ““Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— "Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day."”

   “Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.”

   ““You know, I realized,” she began, her eyes sparkling in the pub's dimness, “that I didn't even catch your name at the Oxford Union the other night.” “Um, Sharpe,” I fambled. “Philip.””