† ingrapplev.
Obsolete.
intransitive and transitive. To join in grappling; to grapple together.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > together
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tie1585
ingrapple1599
fibulate1656
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight at close quarters > grapple
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1599 S. Daniel Let. from Octavia xlviii. sig. D2, in Poet. Ess. At whose ingrappling Neptunes mantle takes A purple colour.
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xxxiv. 96 There shall young Hotspur..Ingrapple [1718 engrapple] with thy sonne.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 201 Two Lyons fierce..at one another flie, And with their armed pawes ingrappled dreadfully.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 144 A Cub-Foxe..had his head seised on by a mighty Pike, so that neither could free themselves, but were ingrapled together.
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