"groper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1693, De La Quintinye [i.e., Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie], “Of Fruit-gardens and Kitchen-gardens. Chapter IV. How to Judge of the Maturity and Goodness of Fruits.”, in John Evelyn, transl., The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-gardens; […], volume II, London: […] Matthew Gillyflower, […], and James Partridge, […], →OCLC, part V, page 86:",
          "text": "[T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter.",
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      "alt": "wreckfish; Polyprion americanus, syn. Polyprion moeone",
      "word": "bass groper"
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