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

An enemy cast a grapnel, which chunked its hooks into a bulwark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

Subsequently, in discussing the construction of the grapnel with.    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

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

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]

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]

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

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]

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

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