grapple

Etymology 1
From, from (compare 🇨🇬), from , , from , equivalent to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and,. Influenced in some senses by (see below). See further at .

Verb

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Japanese: 押え込む
 * Maori: rarawhi, rawhirawhi
 * Norwegian: gripe
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ; , ; , ; ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: боря се
 * Czech: zápasit, zápolit, potýkat se
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Maori: nōnoke, whātōtō, nonoke
 * Persian: دست به یقه شدن
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗੁੱਥਮਗੁੱਥਾ ਹੋਣਾ
 * Romanian: a se lupta
 * Russian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: боря се,
 * Czech: potýkat se, zápolit (s čím)
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:, herumschlagen ,
 * Persian: دست و پنجه نرم کردن
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: a se lupta cu (ceva)

Noun

 * 1) A close hand-to-hand struggle.
 * 2) The act of grappling.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: nōnoketanga
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:, forcegear


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: agarramento
 * Russian:

Derived terms

 * grapple plant

Etymology 2


From, , from (compare 🇨🇬), from , , , of 🇨🇬 origin, from , from , , from. See further at. Influenced in some senses by (see above).

Noun

 * 1) A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, entraushaka, heittokoukku
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:, raffio
 * Kashubian: hôk
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To fasten, as with a grapple;  to fix; to join indissolubly.
 * 2) * 2015, Chris Allen, Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3), Pan (ISBN 9781760082659)
 * Morgan recoiled, ready to fend off another attack, but the rope grappled him back against the fence.
 * 1)  To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
 * 2)  To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
 * 3) * 2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323145565), page 427:
 * After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made
 * 1)  To hook and raise with a grapple.
 * 1) * 2015, Chris Allen, Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3), Pan (ISBN 9781760082659)
 * Morgan recoiled, ready to fend off another attack, but the rope grappled him back against the fence.
 * 1)  To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
 * 2)  To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
 * 3) * 2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323145565), page 427:
 * After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made
 * 1)  To hook and raise with a grapple.
 * 1)  To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
 * 2) * 2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323145565), page 427:
 * After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made
 * 1)  To hook and raise with a grapple.
 * 1) * 2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier (ISBN 9780323145565), page 427:
 * After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made
 * 1)  To hook and raise with a grapple.
 * 1)  To hook and raise with a grapple.

Translations

 * German: ,


 * German: ,


 * German: ,


 * German: an den Haken nehmen

Derived terms

 * grappling tongs

Noun

 * 1)  A combination of grape and apple flavors.