ingrapple

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verb

To seize, clutch, or grapple.

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Meanings

verbingrapple (third-person singular simple present ingrapples, present participle ingrappling, simple past and past participle ingrappled)

present singular third person ingrapples · participle present ingrappling · participle past ingrappled · past ingrappled

  1. obsoletepoeticTo seize, clutch, or grapple.

    There ſhall young Hotspur, with a fury led, Ingrapple with thy ſonne, as fierce as hee

    1595, Samuel Daniel, Civile Wares
    1 more example

    Looke how two Lyons fierce, both hungry, both pursue One sweet and selfe-same prey, at one another flie, And with their armed pawes ingrappled dreadfully,

    1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 201
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Chicago

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