Meanings
verbengrapple (third-person singular simple present engrapples, present participle engrappling, simple past and past participle engrappled)
present singular third person engrapples · participle present engrappling · participle past engrappled · past engrappled
- obsoleteTo grapple.
A cub-fox drinking out of the river Arnus in Italy had his head seized on by a mighty Pike, so that neither could free themselves but were engrappled together[…]
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC
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