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Meanings of grapnel in anglès
català
ruixó A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope.
Synonyms
Examples for "grapple"
Examples for "grapple"
1
Still, the new government will have to grapple with tough economic problems.
2
Unclear things glide and grapple rocks, pulling their way through the water.
3
Grant and Lee were locked in their death grapple in the Wilderness.
4
The crafty antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
5
And now people grapple with them in a different way, maybe online.
1
The grappler won a bronze medal at the Asian Games four years ago.
2
The ADCC comprises the starkest test of a grappler's physical toughness.
3
Two WWE stars were among those who gave their condolences to the Birmingham-born grappler.
4
Again my grappler seemed to bend light around a corner.
5
He wasn't trained for this sort of fighting; he was a knife-fighter, not a grappler.
1
Two lines were thrown, each with a grappling hook on the end.
2
It's got a grappling hook that can allow it to climb vertical walls.
3
Rhodes removed a grappling hook and a length of rope from her pack.
4
Hiro releases the grappling hook and drops it in with him.
5
Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein.
1
It was like someone sinking a grappling iron into my guts.
2
Throwing a grappling iron upon this ship, Cymon drew it close to his own.
3
The cable car must close its grappling iron and grip the cable before progress can be made.
4
He introduces his first finger in his mouth as if it were a grappling iron and extracts the black tobacco.
5
It didn't require any three-pointed grappling iron on its free end and naturally adhered to any surface so tightly that you couldn't pull it off.
Usage of grapnel in anglès
1
Tony Weston hauled in the grapnel, and stowed it in the fore-sheets.
2
Haul away on the grapnel, he shouts; the captain has shot himself.
3
At once he rose above the tower and let down the grapnel.
4
He spun about, collected himself, and fired a grapnel of his own.
5
Then a jerk backwards told me my grapnel had engaged the netting.
6
Drop the grapnel, now; in another minute, we shall be within holding distance.
7
Annja saw what she thought were grapnel lines arcing toward the fleeing vessel.
8
Men were already running to the side, one carrying a grapnel and line.
9
I pulled on the rope, and found the grapnel had caught.
10
Everybody was either trying to dodge the grapnel or catch the trail rope.
11
I had a grapnel, and dropped it some fifty yards from the beach.
12
The grapnel carried is fitted to a short length of rope.
13
Just as this distribution was made, the pirates cast their grapnel.
14
We then hauled off to the grapnel, everyone being more or less hurt.
15
A grapnel was thrown on the sands, and Mark leaped ashore.
16
Suth stared where the chains swung, severed cleanly just back from the grapnel.
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