A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope.
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Examples for "grapple"
Examples for "grapple"
1Still, the new government will have to grapple with tough economic problems.
2Unclear things glide and grapple rocks, pulling their way through the water.
3Grant and Lee were locked in their death grapple in the Wilderness.
4The crafty antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
5And now people grapple with them in a different way, maybe online.
1Tony Weston hauled in the grapnel, and stowed it in the fore-sheets.
2Haul away on the grapnel, he shouts; the captain has shot himself.
3At once he rose above the tower and let down the grapnel.
4He spun about, collected himself, and fired a grapnel of his own.
5Then a jerk backwards told me my grapnel had engaged the netting.
1The grappler won a bronze medal at the Asian Games four years ago.
2The ADCC comprises the starkest test of a grappler's physical toughness.
3Two WWE stars were among those who gave their condolences to the Birmingham-born grappler.
4Again my grappler seemed to bend light around a corner.
5He wasn't trained for this sort of fighting; he was a knife-fighter, not a grappler.
1Two lines were thrown, each with a grappling hook on the end.
2It's got a grappling hook that can allow it to climb vertical walls.
3Rhodes removed a grappling hook and a length of rope from her pack.
4Hiro releases the grappling hook and drops it in with him.
5Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein.
1It was like someone sinking a grappling iron into my guts.
2Throwing a grappling iron upon this ship, Cymon drew it close to his own.
3The cable car must close its grappling iron and grip the cable before progress can be made.
4He introduces his first finger in his mouth as if it were a grappling iron and extracts the black tobacco.
5It 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.
6But to go on to the use of his machine; I say that below this grappling iron was a fire [Footnote 14: Compare No.
7Ropes and grappling irons were used to hoist the body on board.
8The grappling irons must be got on board at once, Captain, and let us start this evening!
9Have your grappling irons ready!
10Don't wait for the sloop or think about her, but just see that the grappling irons are fast, and then get aboard.
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