How To Use Grapnel In A Sentence
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It allows anchoring at great depths with grapnels or other types of anchors and facilitates their recovery.
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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
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To obviate this, grapnels have been devised which, simultaneously with hooking the cable, will cut it and hold the desired end.
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Attached to the rocket was a grapnel.
Christianity Today
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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The skipper rigs a 45m line with a grapnel to place it as close to the bridge as possible.
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With the grapnel and rope attached to its antlers the animal struggles to get loose and breaks the rope, but not before it pulls the hydrofloat over to a wooden dock.
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Instantly dazzled, I scurry along to the top of a bed at the very end, by the corner, where a petrol lamp jingles unnoticed from a ceiling grapnel.
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And don't forget - we'd have to send up some kind of grapnel as well, if we want the end to stay up there. '
Of Time and Stars
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Cut and hold grapnels raise cable for repair from deep water.
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This proved invaluable for accurately plotting the outline of the wreck and positioning our grapnel line exactly where we wanted it.
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This entails digging down around the mine so that a grapnel can be attached and the mine pulled out of the ground my men under cover.
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The spicules are some crutch-like, others spined or echinated, while the deep-sea sponges appear to grow long thick spicules, which attach the sponge to the ground by means of grapnel-like ends.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
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Several grapnels were hurled onto the deck from the patrol boat, latching onto to side rails and other parts of the hull.
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Additionally I have found that the typical grapnel often does not provide sufficient holding power.
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There were no handholds on the rock face, and we had to use a grapnel.
Tin
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Furthermore, the weight of the inertia parts unnecessarily increases the weight of the whole grapnel.
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To ensure that the shotline remains in one place, a folding grapnel anchor of the type commonly used by small boats in areas where a sand anchor will not hold is ideal.
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His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation — some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained — just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness.
The Woodlanders
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Oh! we call a small kind of grapnel, or four-armed anchor, a creeper," said Will.
Menhardoc
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Apertures for grapnels will be cut by divers.
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The grapnel is a small anchor, made like four pot-hooks tied back to back.
Heroes of the Telegraph
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Many of the grapnels never reached the top because they were soaked and too heavy.
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A wide variety of chain/wire chasers and grapnels are available, in addition to those illustrated below.
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In fact, as Tendron threw grapnels across and boarded the ship, he was welcomed by a committee which included Redwing and Princess Jenaryn.
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It's the first large anchor that divers have retrieved; they earlier brought up a small, grapnel anchor.
Blackbeard's anchor recovered off N.C. coast
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They would have three good ships for cutting grapnels and holding grapnels, so that they could buoy and lift the cable in three parts.
