Brawl vs Grapple - What's the difference?
brawl | grapple |
To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
To complain loudly; to scold.
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
* Wordsworth
To seize something and hold it firmly.
(figuratively) to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; normally used with "with".
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To use a grapple.
To wrestle or tussle.
To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
* Hakluyt
* Shakespeare
(nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grapnel or grappling iron.
(uncountable) The act of grappling.
A close hand-to-hand struggle.
As nouns the difference between brawl and grapple
is that brawl is a fight, usually with a large number of people involved while grapple is a device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grapnel or grappling iron.As verbs the difference between brawl and grapple
is that brawl is to engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel while grapple is to seize something and hold it firmly.brawl
English
(wikipedia brawl)Verb
(en verb)- where the brook brawls along the painful road
grapple
English
(wikipedia grapple)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (see below). More at (l).Verb
(grappl)- The gallies were grappled to the Centurion.
- Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.