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  • noun Plural form of grapnel.

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Examples

  • I will append one qualification to these observations pertaining to grapnels which is to acknowledge the giant, chain grapnel, and its relative, the grapnel derrick.

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • But the next time, so slow is the movement of so large a ship, the mutineers hauled all their lines safely inboard ere they towed aft within striking distance of my grapnels.

    CHAPTER XLVII 2010

  • They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • What specially interested them was evidently our work at digging holes in the snow for the grapnels.

    The South Pole~ On the Barrier 2009

  • Or cling desperately to ice-sheathed rock overhangs while their manly owner grapnels for pitons with his carabiniers, or whatever.

    In Memoriam. LuLu 2008

  • But they had also previous notice, and had been told of the iron grapnels; and they took precautions against this as against all the other devices of the Athenians.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • They covered the prows of their vessels with hides, extending a good way along the upper part of their sides, so that the grapnels might slip and find no hold.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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