English Dictionary

grapple

/ˈɡɹæpəl/

verb

(transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly. / (transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).

He tried to grapple with the heavy box.

意味（1）

(transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.

The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

The gallies were grapled to the Centurion. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies… (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]: Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).

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.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).

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, […]

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive) To hook and raise with a grapple.

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.