Word Meanings - INGRAPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
Related words: (words related to INGRAPPLE)
- GRAPPLEMENT
A grappling; close fight or embrace. Spenser. - SEIZER
One who, or that which, seizes. - CLUTCH
The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of - 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 - SEIZE
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with - ENGRAPPLE
To grapple. - INGRAPPLE
To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton. - UNCLUTCH
To disengage, as a clutch. (more info) 1. To open, as something closely shut. "Unclutch his griping hand." Dr. H. More. - CONE CLUTCH
A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces. - REDISSEIZE
To disseize anew, or a second time. - DISSEIZE
To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully ; -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize - DISSEIZEE
A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. - DISK CLUTCH
A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks. - FORESEIZE
To seize beforehand. - RESEIZER
The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law. (more info) 1. One who seizes again. - RESEIZE
To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized. The sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. Blackstone. (more info)