Definitions
a light anchor for small boats
Word origin
From Middle English grapnel, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin. Compare modern French grappin.
Used in a sentence
“With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver ...”
““[…] Why, you’ve flung your grapnel over the doctor, and he’s coming courting forthwith.””
“But by the mercy o’ God to heretics, what were left o’ my poor ship got a hold on that guarda-costa’s timbers wi’ her grapnels, what time we climbs aboard her.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Small anchor”7 letters
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