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Meanings of grappling iron in English
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
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.
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.
Usage of grappling iron in English
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.
6
But to go on to the use of his machine; I say that below this grappling iron was a fire [Footnote 14: Compare No.
7
Ropes and grappling irons were used to hoist the body on board.
8
The grappling irons must be got on board at once, Captain, and let us start this evening!
9
Have your grappling irons ready!
10
Don't wait for the sloop or think about her, but just see that the grappling irons are fast, and then get aboard.