Definitionn. a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding
Last update: November 1, 2015
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Using these buoys to guide the direction of tow, a grapnel, a species of fivepronged anchor, attached to a strong compound rope formed of strands of steel and manila, is lowered to the bottom and dragged at a slow speed, as it were ploughing a furrow in the sea bottom, in a line at right angles to the cable route, until the behaviour of the dynamometer shows that the cable is hooked. [Please select]
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"The grapnel is on the ground," Percy said, looking over. [Please select]
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I haven't hurt her a bit, and her new grapnel's worth three of the old one. [Please select]
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With his free hand he loosened the coil of the grapnel. [Please select]
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He must strike the machine with the body of the Glider or with the grapnel. [Please select]
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The grapnel bounded and clanged along the tiling, missing the tripod by three feet. [Please select]
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The curved irons of the grapnel tore away the coping--slid, screaming. [Please select]
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Heedless of direction, he wrenched with his fingers to unship the grapnel chain. [Please select]
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We didn't have much trouble to find a grapnel. [Please select]
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We went in the fort, and found that if we could get a stout grapnel over the wall, it would probably catch on the inside of the coping, and give us a good enough hold. [Please select]
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That rope was expensive, and the grapnel cost a good deal more than we thought it would; and now you want a big pot of black paint. [Please select]
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