Crossword-Solution: GRAPNEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grapnel | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRAPNEL | anagram | REALGNP |
We have 22 clues for the answer “GRAPNEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Type of anchor used with small boats | 1 answer |
| Small anchor with three or more flukes | 1 answer |
| Small anchor with several flukes | 1 answer |
| Small anchor | 2 answers |
| Grappling | 2 answers |
| WEIGHT for mooring a ship | 3 answers |
| drag anchor | 3 answers |
| Mountaineering aid | 3 answers |
| Sea anchor | 3 answers |
| Creeper | 5 answers |
| clutching hand | 6 answers |
| grappling hook | 6 answers |
| forked end | 6 answers |
| A LIGHT ANCHOR FOR SMALL BOATS | 10 answers |
| extractor | 13 answers |
| Nipper | 17 answers |
| mooring | 20 answers |
| CLAW ___ | 27 answers |
| Grapple | 34 answers |
| Crook | 43 answers |
| Anchor | 50 answers |
| Hook | 59 answers |
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Sentences with GRAPNEL (5)
Masthead -- masthead, the signal sped by the line o' the British craft; The skipper called to his Lascar crew, and put her about and laughed: -- “It's mainsail haul, my bully boys all -- we'll out to the seas again -- Ere they set us to paint their pirate saint, or scrub at his grapnel-chain.
Having noted the spring armour of Crab K, he believed that if he could get a grapnel between its steel ribs he yet might capture the sea-monster.
Why, you’ve flung your grapnel over the doctor, and he’s coming courting forthwith.” “Only think of that, my dear! Don’t you feel it a triumph?” said Mrs.
Kolskegg snatched up a grapnel and cast it at Karli's ship, and the fluke fell inside the hold, and went out through one of the planks and in rushed the coal-blue sea, and all the men sprang on board other ships.
The end of the large one has even now regained its sandy bed; and three buoys—one to grapnel foul of the supposed small cable, two to the big cable—are dipping about on the surface.
Quotes with GRAPNEL (2)
Anxiety felt like a grapnel anchor had been pickaxed into your back, one prong in each lung, one through the heart, one through the spine, the weight curving your posture forward, dragging you down to the murky depths of the sea floor. The good news was that you kind of got used to it after a while. Got used to the gasping, brink-of-heart-attack feeling that followed you everywhere. All you had to do was grab one of the prongs that stuck out from the bottom of your sternum, g…
The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down in the water thatwhispered yes, yes, yes. Go forward, onward, into the unknown. It felt like something between destruction and thrill
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1996–2006).