engrapple
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]engrapple (third-person singular simple present engrapples, present participle engrappling, simple past and past participle engrappled)
- (obsolete) To grapple.
- 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:
- 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 […]
References
[edit]- “engrapple”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “engrapple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.