Grabble vs Grapple - What's the difference?
grabble | grapple |
To search with one's hands and fingers; to grope.
To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
To seize something and hold it firmly.
(figuratively) to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; normally used with "with".
* to grapple''' with one's '''conscience
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 verbs the difference between grabble and grapple
is that grabble is to search with one's hands and fingers; to grope while grapple is to seize something and hold it firmly.As a noun 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.grabble
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Verb
(grabbl)- A few hollow groans from the wardrobe, he thought, would be more than sufficient, or, if that failed to wake her, he might grabble''' at the counterpane with palsy-twitching fingers.'' - ' 1887 ,
- He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a-grabbling and fumbling. — Selden.
- (Ainsworth)
Anagrams
*grapple
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(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.