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Definition of Grapplers
1. grappler [n] - See also: grappler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grapplers
Literary usage of Grapplers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (1884)
"So if thou wouldst not with our grapplers deal 50 Do not on surface of the pitch
abide.' Then he a hundred hooks' was made to feel. ..."
2. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri (1884)
"So if thou wouldst not with our grapplers deal 50 Do not on surface of the pitch
abide.' Then he a hundred hooks' was made to feel. ..."
3. Economic Mining: A Practical Handbook for the Miner, the Metallurgist and by Charles George Warnford Lock (1895)
"These " grapplers " weigh about 5 tons each, and have 8 claws closed by ...
The " grapplers" are lowered by chains, and it is claimed they can work in 50 ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"We works of the year, ' The Grapplers,' have still each day around us, in by
Molin, a bronze group from our national monuments, public Sweden, placed in the ..."
5. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1922)
"... and the better to come together they had great hooks and grapplers of iron to
cast out of one ship into another, and so tied them fast together. ..."
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