Word Meanings - HARPAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A grappling iron.

Related words: (words related to HARPAGON)

• GRAPPLEMENT
  A grappling; close fight or embrace. Spenser.
• GRAPPLE
  1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. 2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
• GRAPPLING
  1. A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel. 2. A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear. Dryden. Grappling iron, a hooked iron used for grappling and holding
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.