(n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "grapnel" 27 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/grapnel/definitions/2013469> |