grapple

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To seize something and hold it firmly.
2. fiil To wrestle or tussle.
3. fiil To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.

   “to grapple with one's conscience”

4. isim A close hand-to-hand struggle.
5. isim The act of grappling. (uncountable)
6. isim A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
7. isim A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
8. fiil To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.

   “The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.”

9. fiil To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).

   “Sam quickly geared up and placed the first hook. “I am coming as well,” Alicia announced. […] Sam planted the anchor and then grappled down as Alicia struggled to move more than a foot or shift down.”

10. fiil To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).

    “The following days I spent patrolling the river and grappling for nets. On Wednesday , 18th July , left Gananoque at 7 a.m.; patrolled down to Rockport, […]”

11. fiil To hook and raise with a grapple.

    “The place where the cable got jammed and broken at the bottom was two or three miles from where I grappled up the cable the first time. I do not, of course, know for certain whether rocks with crevices exist.”

12. isim A combination of grape and apple flavors.

    “Lady Cheron looks at the cupboards. Both apple butter and apple jelly, as well as "grapple" (grape-apple) jelly are sitting in little mason jars on the top shelf.”