Index of English words, starting with "gr"

(1) - Grapnel (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

(1) - Grapple (v. t.) A grappling iron.
(2) - Grapple (v. t.) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab.
(3) - Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.
(4) - Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another.
(5) - Grapple (v. t.) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
(6) - Grapple (v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

(1) - Grappling (n.) A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
(2) - Grappling (n.) A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
(3) - Grappling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grapple