- Contend (with) - Get to grips (with) - Seize - Struggle with - Wrestle - Wrestle with - To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close
quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.
- A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to
hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple
or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and
crapnel.