grapplement

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noun

A grappling; close fight or embrace.

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Meanings

noungrapplement (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableA grappling; close fight or embrace.

    Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From grapple + -ment.

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APA

grapplement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grapplement

MLA

“grapplement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grapplement. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grapplement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grapplement.

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