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Webster 1913 Edition


Grappling

Grap′pling

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Noun.
1.
A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
2.
A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
Dryden.
Grappling iron
,
a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object.
Grappling tongs
,
broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.

Definition 2024


grappling

grappling

English

Noun

grappling (plural grapplings)

  1. (gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with
    • 2007 December 21, Bernard Holland, “Yielding to Youths Fierce Enthusiasms”, in New York Times:
      [] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.

Translations

Verb

grappling

  1. present participle of grapple