grapple

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹæpəl/    美 /ˈɡɹæpəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A close hand-to-hand struggle. countable,uncountable
  2. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.; 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 combination of grape and apple flavors. uncountable
    — Lady Cheron looks at the cupboards. Both apple butter and apple jelly, as well as "grapple" (grape-apple) jelly are sitting in little mason jars on the top shelf.
  4. The act of grappling. (uncountable) countable,uncountable
  5. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.; A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
动词 v.
  1. To seize something and hold it firmly. transitive
  2. To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly. transitive
    — The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.
  3. To wrestle or tussle. intransitive
  4. To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc). intransitive,transitive
    — Sam quickly geared up and placed the first hook. “I am coming as well,” Alicia announced. […] Sam planted the anchor and then grappled down as Alicia struggled to move more than a foot or shift down.
  5. To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with. figuratively
    — to grapple with one's conscience
  6. To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable). intransitive
    — The following days I spent patrolling the river and grappling for nets. On Wednesday , 18th July , left Gananoque at 7 a.m.; patrolled down to Rockport, […]
  7. To hook and raise with a grapple. intransitive,transitive
    — The place where the cable got jammed and broken at the bottom was two or three miles from where I grappled up the cable the first time. I do not, of course, know for certain whether rocks with crevices exist.

词形变化

grapples present,singular,third-person grappling participle,present grappled participle,past grappled past graple alternative grapples plural graple alternative grapples plural graple alternative grapples present,singular,third-person grappling participle,present grappled participle,past grappled past graple alternative graple alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
gaffle grapplehook grapplement grappler grapplesome grapple with ungrapple grapple plant grappling tongs

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *grapplen (“to seize, lay hold of”), from Old English *græpplian (“to seize”) (compare Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”)), from Proto-Germanic *graipilōną, *grabbalōną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), equivalent to grab + -le.
Cognate with Dutch grabbelen (“to grope, scramble, scrabble”), German grabbeln (“to rummage, grope about”) and grapsen, grapschen (“to seize, grasp, grabble”). Influenced in some senses by grapple (“tool with claws or hooks”, noun) (see below). See further at grasp.
词源 2
From Middle English *grapple, *graple, from Old French grappil (“a ship's grapple”) (compare Old French grappin (“hook”)), from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). See further at grape. Influenced in some senses by grapple (“seize”, verb) (see above).
词源 3
Blend of grape + apple.
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