Grappling
['græpl]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grapple
(n.) A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.
(n.) A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
Edited by Gail
Examples
- Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To all other emergencies and complications my natural capacity for grappling, single-handed, with circumstances, was invariably equal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was but a yard between the two mighty ships as the first grappling irons were hurled. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Going to another extreme, we find Edison grappling with one of the biggest problems known to the authorities of New York--the disposal of its heavy snows. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No man may say with certainty what thought was uppermost in Goethe’s mind when, grappling in the final struggle with the King of Terrors, he exclaimed Mehr licht! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There may be tragic economic struggles, grim grapplings of race with race and class with class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Dwight