Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That by which anything is seized and held; a grapnel.
- n. An anchorage.
- n. A lernæan parasite of the menhaden: so called from having the shape of a grappling-iron.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
- n. A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
- n. the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
Examples
“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 children weren't doing cage fighting, they were doing what they call grappling.”
“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?
“Maybe it's a good time to take a long position in grappling hooks, peglegs, eyepatches and parrots?”
“And from that perspective, I suspect he wants folks to hurry the hell up in grappling with reality.”
“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.”
“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.
“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”
“Yet, in grappling with these, he might go near to make his part good; but his heart cannot endure, nor his hands be strong, when”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“This has been the way of God's people in grappling with this difficulty.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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