grapnel

It was always an hour or more before we could get the grapnel down again.

He carried the grapnel in his hand for lack of a better place.

While you were making the reel and grapnel, I thought about that.

Would the grapnel lines hold the two ships close enough together?

A man stood in its bow with grapnel and line.

An instant later, the program that she had written cut off the grapnel field.

A grapnel flung across it caught on the third try.

A light grapnel and a line could answer very well, on balconies.

To one side of the gun was a grapnel, its line coiled down.

After a while, when the pain was a long way off, I moved along the wall a few yards and tossed the grapnel up again.

Having found a desirable body, it lays hold with a grapnel field.

Then you'll hear the grapnel catching in the tow ring.

There were no handholds on the rock face, and we had to use a grapnel.

"I would go, but the grapnel rope is too thin for me."

The grapnel never went out of sight at all.

A grapnel can clear up to 99 percent of the trip-wires in a single pass.

His eyes dimmed as though all their gleam had gone into the grapnel.

Also the defenders may be expected to free or dislodge the grapnel if possible.

The grapnel shot out, caught the peak of a nearby roof, and held.

Everybody was either trying to dodge the grapnel or catch the trail rope.

A grapnel had caught one of the watchmen and pulled him hard against the wood.

Pamela and he exchanged a glance, then stepped past the grapnel.

As we drifted fast to leeward, the grapnel was dropped.

The derrick grapnel is much what the name suggests.

In the morning the balloon is low enough for the grapnel dangling over the edge to catch on a house.