Lexic.us

Definition of Grappling

1. Noun. The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat. "We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"

2. Noun. The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.

Definition of Grappling

1. n. A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.

Definition of Grappling

1. Verb. (present participle of grapple) ¹

2. Noun. (context: gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grappling

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grappling

graplines graplins grapnel anchor grapnels grappa grappas grappled grapplehook grapplehooks grapplement

grappler grapplers grapples grappling (current term) grappling hook grappling iron grappling irons grapplings grapsoid grapsoids

graptolite graptolites graptolitic grapy grasp grasp all, lose all grasp at straws grasp reflex

Literary usage of Grappling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A grappling-iron, used to seize and hold one ship to another m engagements ... Also called grappling. To grapple With, to contend with in close contest, ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... he has been grappling with these momentous problems, and here we have the maturest processes and results of all his thinking and of his life's ..."

3. Same Bed, Different Dreams: America and Japan-Societies in Transition by Alan D. Romberg, Tadashi Yamamoto (1990)
"... UNITED STATES AND JAPAN grappling WITH THE FUTURE Alan D. Romberg The United States and Japan are both grappling with changing realities to define their ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"grappling With the Submarine Peril Address by Sir Eric Geddes First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes signalized his entrance into the duties of ..."

Other Resources: