grapnel

How To Use grapnel In A Sentence

• It allows anchoring at great depths with grapnels or other types of anchors and facilitates their recovery.
• Rhegians, sailing up to them, and seeing that the crews were not there, fell upon the empty vessels, but an iron grapnel was thrown out at them, and they in their turn lost a ship, from which the crew escaped by swimming. The History of the Peloponnesian War
• To obviate this, grapnels have been devised which, simultaneously with hooking the cable, will cut it and hold the desired end.
• Attached to the rocket was a grapnel. Christianity Today
• The collapsible grapnel is a hand-thrown grapnel hook that is used for climbing, removing mines and other objects, and pulling concertina and barbed wire obstacles.
• But here, in Arkham City, the grapnel is a star, embracing the sprawling chunk of quarantined Gotham that Batman now prowls, catapulting you across its scrum of industrial brick, filth and rampant criminality. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• The grapnels in high strength aluminum alloy can be projected to a height of minimum 50 m and horizontally to a minimum of 80 metres.
• A fresh wind was blowing so that it was impossible to work from a small boat tightly strained between two grapnels, in which manner the Norwegian current measurements were generally taken.
• They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
• The skipper rigs a 45m line with a grapnel to place it as close to the bridge as possible.