Grapple

What do we mean by grapple?

An iron shaft with claws at one end, usually thrown by a rope and used for grasping and holding, especially one for drawing and holding an enemy ship alongside. noun

Any of various grasping devices having hinged tines or jaws that close around an object or load, used especially in lifting or dragging heavy items. noun

The act of grappling. noun

A struggle or contest in which the participants attempt to wrestle with each other by clutching or gripping. noun

A struggle for superiority or dominance. noun

To seize and hold with a grapple. intransitive verb

To seize firmly with the hands. intransitive verb

To hold onto something with a grapple. intransitive verb

To use a grapple or similar device, as for dragging. intransitive verb

To wrestle with an opponent by clutching or gripping. intransitive verb

To struggle or work hard to deal with something. intransitive verb

To seize or grasp with a grapple; lay fast hold on with mechanical appliances or with the hands: as, to grapple an antagonist.

Synonyms To gripe, grasp, catch, clutch, clasp.

To fasten on another, or on each other, as ships, by some mechanical means, as grappling-irons; seize another, or each other, in a close grip, as in wrestling; clinch: often used figuratively.

A hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens on another; a grapnel. noun

A clasping-hook for grasping a beam, used in suspending the blocks or hoisting apparatus of a hay-fork. noun

A close hand-to-hand struggle; the act of grappling.

Words that are spelled similarly to grapple:
grapple, crapple, gripple, grappe, graple, gropple.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word grapple:
latching, loader, grappling, hoist, fixture, auger, orbiter, detonated, iss, salvage, fixtures, inferno, robotic, claw, bucket, maneuver, hook, exploded, truss, dump, cosmos, payload, projectile, tackle, swing, attachment, loads, boom, module, opponent, moves, hydraulic, truck, orbital, tests, diving, eva, batman, arm, punch, spacecraft, submission, bomb, mounted, pin, granite, rope, wrestler, hydrogen, yield, opponents, shuttle, rays, lift, throw, deployment, weapon, onto, enemies, gun, fork, prey, uss, trapped, kick, robot, cable, pull, beam, harmony, legacy, enemy, bosnia, nuclear, slavery, orbit, remote, wrestling, difficulties, deployed, dragon, repair, reality, catch, organic, waste, issues, weapons, christmas, perform, attached, tool, rescue, problems, satellite, frame, seem, electrical, ships, legs.

Words that rhyme with grapple:
apple, pineapple, chapel, appal, snapple, rappel, dapple, scrapple, appel, crapple, strapple, thrapple, scapple, crab apple, star apple, love apple, knapple, oak apple, sugar apple, rose apple, kapelle, chappell, custard apple, kappel, mad apple, stapel, appell, chappel, chapple, lady chapel, may apple, pond apple, balsam apple, thorn apple, candy apple, caramel apple, cherry apple, side chapel, american crab apple, common thorn apple, cooking apple, dessert apple, eating apple, siberian crab apple, taffy apple, southern crab apple, jamaica apple, kangaroo apple, cultivated crab apple, prickly custard apple, wild apple, candied apple, mapel, oregon crab apple, western crab apple, bell apple, cappel, kai apple, blade apple, funeral chapel, happel, pitch apple, schappell, shappell.

Adjectives that are often used to describe grapple:
deadly, final, first, last, fierce, close, hand, desperate, bloody, death, real, long, successful, direct, magnetic, mortal, personal, furious, actual, decisive, gigantic, cordial, impending, mutual, closest, wild, revengeful, strenuous, fearful, better, savage, effectual, mighty, hard, terrible, least, quiet, grim, immediate, daily, opposed, like, awful, silent, titanic, scathful, resolute, contemplated, pronged, stern, secular, blind, terrific, hydraulic, platonic, latter, pure, less, masculine, huge, deathly, swift, fresh, earnest, friendly, veritable, spiral, occasional, sturdy, suicidal, rough, genuine, unyielding.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective grapple:
plant, hook, skidder, fixture, dredger, dredges, fork, hooks, checks, loader, attack, point, forks, arm, shearing.

Consonant match to grapple:
graupel, gripple.

Words that sound like grapple:
grapple, grabble, gripple, crapple, graupel, grappa, grable, gribble, grappled, grapples, grubble, grapnel, graybeal, griebel, cripple, creeple, grabill, graybill, grappelli, gabble, gracile, grewal, grapa, goupil, grassl, greuel, grauel, group a, gripa, grupa, grabbled, gripping, grabbing, groping, grouping, griping, curple, scrapple, crapola, kapil, cappel, cribble, kappel, arabel, creable, kriebel, kai apple, gerbil, gruel, gerbille, gruwell, crapping, gospel, gravel, groupie, gobble, grumble, girdle, gretel, gable, gristle, grampa, grappling, grap, grabby, graps, goble, grackle, grappler, grippy, graben, gral, gimpel, grippen, grapey, gopal, grisel, gobel, green apple, grapy, grippo, goebel, agrawal, gappa, gebel, grappe, gapa, giebel, grabow, gariepy, growable, geibel, grabau, grapplers, gospl, gray whale, gribbles, grapo, griffel, group o.