1631 E. Pellham 21 Taking up an old Harping Iron..& fastning a Grapnell Roape unto it, out lanch't wee our Boate.
1711 W. Sutherland 133 Grapnel-rope Cabl'd.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Grapnel-rope, that which is bent to the grapnel by which a boat rides, now substituted by chain.