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grapnelling

grapnelling is the present participle and gerund of grapnel.

Meaning of grapnel

Verb

grapnel (third-person singular simple present grapnels, present participle (US) grapneling or (UK) grapnelling, simple past and past participle (US) grapneled or (UK) grapnelled)

  1. (transitive) To connect (ships) with a grapnel.

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Questions about grapnelling

What is grapnelling the present participle and gerund of?
Grapnelling is the present participle and gerund of grapnel.

Words near grapnelling in the dictionary

  1. graplines
  2. grapling
  3. graplins
  4. grapnel
  5. grapnelled
  6. grapnelling
  7. grapnels
  8. grappa
  9. grappas
  10. Grappenhall
  11. Grappenhall and Thelwall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grapnelling (page history and authors); grapnel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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