A light anchor for small boats.
A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope.
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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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