Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That by which anything is seized and held; a grapnel.
- noun An anchorage.
- noun A lernæan parasite of the menhaden: so called from having the shape of a grappling-iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
- noun A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
- noun a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object.
- noun broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
grapple . - noun An act in which something is
grappled or grappled with
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
- noun the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
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Examples
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'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions.
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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The children weren't doing cage fighting, they were doing what they call grappling.
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I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with.
what do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong? 2009
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I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with.
what do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong? 2009
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Maybe it's a good time to take a long position in grappling hooks, peglegs, eyepatches and parrots?
This Week in Piracy 2008
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Maybe it's a good time to take a long position in grappling hooks, peglegs, eyepatches and parrots?
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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And from that perspective, I suspect he wants folks to hurry the hell up in grappling with reality.
pinter again 2005
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Right now Canada and the United States find themselves at about the same stage in grappling with this new concept of a continental economy that the six common market countries reached in 1953, when they took the first step towards the Common Market by establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
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Sir Harry lost no time in grappling with public business, and started by sea on the 11th December for the frontier.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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Constitution to fetter the hands of conscientious loyalty in grappling with them, is a political creed which argues ill for the patriotism of its confessors; but it embodies the exact logic of those who look upon
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