ingrapple

English

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To seize; to clutch; to grapple.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 201:

     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,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ingrapple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lappering, rappeling