grapplement

English

Etymology

From grapple +‎ -ment.

Noun

grapplement (uncountable)

1. (archaic) A grappling; close fight or embrace.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

References

• “grapplement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.