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grapplement

grapplement noun: a grappling; close fight or embrace.

Noun

grapplement (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A grappling; close fight or embrace.
    • Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd
      With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of grapplement

From grapple + -ment.

Questions about grapplement

What does grapplement mean?
Grapplement means a grappling; close fight or embrace.
What part of speech is grapplement?
Grapplement is a noun.

Words near grapplement in the dictionary

  1. grapple with
  2. grappled
  3. grappled with
  4. grapplehook
  5. grapplehooks
  6. grapplement
  7. grappler
  8. grapplers
  9. grapples
  10. grapples with
  11. grapplesome

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