And don't forget - we'd have to send up some kind of grapnel as well, if we want the end to stay up there. '. From Wordnik.com. [Of Time and Stars]
"Oh! we call a small kind of grapnel, or four-armed anchor, a creeper," said Will. From Wordnik.com. [Menhardoc] Reference
Presently a magnetic grapnel clanked against our hull. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
The grapnel carried is fitted to a short length of rope. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
Subsequently, in discussing the construction of the grapnel with. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
An enemy cast a grapnel, which chunked its hooks into a bulwark. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
The grapnel just described we had in use on the Minia since April last. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
The value of the grapnel was shown that day at the pier above Westover. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Some of the ladder men and grapnel crews were already probing the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
Everybody was either trying to dodge the grapnel or catch the trail rope. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
It was always an hour or more before we could get the grapnel down again. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
This grapnel is a small anchor, made like four pot-hooks tied back to back. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
An instant later, the program that she had written cut off the grapnel field. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Also the defenders may be expected to free or dislodge the grapnel if possible. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
The grapnel field stretched, tugging, dragging Rover along, but how slowly slow. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
There it would seize the capsule in a grapnel field, haul it inboard, and bring it back. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
A rope, carrying a small grapnel at one end, was at the other end attached to the 'flap.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
This arrangement renders the grapnel as effectual in the deepest as in the shallowest water. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Others scattered down the wall to meet the grapnel crews and the scalers, with their ladders. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
We weighed the grapnel, and were soon in pursuit, when we saw two other black-looking objects. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
They'll throw grapnel ropes to try to haul us in and rely on speed and agility to do the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
For example, very few captains are likely to get their ships within range of a derrick grapnel. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
There were dozens of supporting grapnel and ladder crews, however, now approaching between the towers. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
He had one idea now very clear in his mind, and that was to drop the iron grapnel that hung from the ring. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
As a matter of fact, the grapnel will turn, and does turn, with the rope; a swivel is therefore of no value. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Alex spent more than an hour throwing the grapnel in the direction of where he guessed the sacks to be lying. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12 - Stage One] Reference
It was already afloat, but riding quite safely to a rope and a little grapnel, which she proceeded to haul in. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Mr Jellaby being the last to leave the hapless hulk, letting go the grapnel as he dropped into the sternsheets. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
A rope armed with an iron grapnel snaked across the short gap of churning water between the galley and the dhow. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Many seemed at their ease, watching the walls, the ladders, the grapnel men, what they could see of the fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
There the grapnel field, the same force that hauled on cosmic stones, low-power now, clasped them behind the hull. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
The evening was now drawing on, when we pulled the boat to the middle of the lagoon and let go the grapnel for the night. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
This grapnel was successfully used on the Anglo-American Telegraph Company's repairing steamer Minia in the summer of 1881. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Before midnight we came to a grapnel off the float or Coopang and found here one ship, a ketch and two or three small craft. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
As swiftly as they had attacked, the pirates retreated, fleeing to their ship and slashing the grapnel ropes to part the vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A tangle of the six-wire cable hung to the grapnel which had been left buoyed, and the small cable had parted and is lost for the present. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
When the rope gets taut, the ship is stopped and the grapnel hauled up to the surface in the hopes of finding the cable on its prongs. —. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
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