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grappling, vbl. n.|ˈgræplɪŋ|
In sense 3 corruptly graplin, grap-line.
[f. grapple v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. grapple.
1601Cornwallyes Ess. x, To lay hold at the grappeling of ships until the losse of both hands, and then to hold by the teeth. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 225 To beare the shock and brunt of the first grapling. 1748F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 42 It becoming, soon after the Ship's grappling, a close Body of Ice. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 238 The different stages [in an illness] of mad fury, savage grappling, abject terror [etc.].
†2. A place where one may grapple a vessel. Also to come, bring to a grappling: to come to anchor (cf. grapnel 2). Obs.
1712W. Rogers Voy. 166 We rowed till 12 at Night, judg'd it High Water, and came to a Graplin. 1740Whitefield in Life & Lett. (1756) 330 The wind being high and contrary we were obliged to come to a Grapling, near an open Reach. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 21 The long-boat having filled with water, they had brought her to a grapling, and quitted her. Ibid. V. 1680 Two others were ordered out, to fish at a grappling near the shore.
3. concr.
a. A grappling-iron; = grapple n. 1. In first quot. collect. = implements for grappling.
1598Barret Theor. Warres 134 The iron workes, cables anchors and grappling. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 19 Boord him on his weather quarter, lash fast your graplins. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan 82 The crooked Grappling's steely Hold they cast. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. x. 163, I had made me a kind of an Anchor; with a piece of a broken graplin. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. (ed. 2) 228 A grappling..should be kept handy in the bows of the boat.
fig.1887Hall Caine Deemster xxvii. 170 ‘We're rael sorry, and we know your heart was gript to him with grapplins’.
b. = grapnel 2, grapple 2.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 16 The streame Anchor, graplings or kedgers. 1676T. Glover in Phil. Trans. XI. 625 The sloop-man dropped his grap-line. 1725De Foe Voy. Round World (1840) 116 They hove over their grappling in five fathom water. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §149 The yawl's grappling got so fast among the rocks, that it could not be weighed. 1808A. Parsons Trav. viii. 168 Boats..with two anchors or graplins to each boat. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xv. (1859) 381 Stand by with the grapplings.
4. attrib. and Comb., as grappling-engine, grappling-instrument, etc.; grappling-hook, -iron = grapnel.
1618Bolton Florus (1636) 77 The hands of yron, and other the *grappling engine of the Romans, the enemy made much sport at.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xix. (1748) 334 In hulks with *grapling hooks to hunt the dreadful whale. 1625Heylin Cosmogr. America (ed. 2) 783 We are indebted..for grapling-hookes to Anacharsis.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxiii. 245 Hooks, or other *grappling Instruments.
1538Elyot Dict., Harpa, a *grapelyng yron, for to close shyppes togyther. 1766H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1809) IV. 139 The grappling-iron of a corsair. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, The Red Rover, casting out grappling irons..jumped on the deck. 1845James A. Neil II. i, Hand me that grappling iron, my man. |