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grapple
  • n  a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
  • n  a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
  • n  the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
  • v  come to terms with
  • v  to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
    the two men grappled with each other for several minutes
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grappler
  • n  combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground
  • n  a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
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grappling
  • n  the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
    we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully
  • n  the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
  • v  come to terms with
  • v  to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
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grappling hook
  • n  a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
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grappling iron
  • n  a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
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graptophyllum pictum
  • n  tropical Old World shrub having purple or red tubular flowers and leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face
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grasp
  • n  understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
    he has a good grasp of accounting practices
  • n  the limit of capability
  • n  an intellectual hold or understanding
    a terrible power had her in its grasp
  • n  the act of grasping
  • v  hold firmly
  • v  get the meaning of something
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grass
  • n  narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
  • n  German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
  • n  a police informer who implicates many people
  • n  bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  • n  street names for marijuana
  • v  shoot down, of birds
  • v  cover with grass
    The owners decided to grass their property
  • v  spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
  • v  cover with grass
  • v  feed with grass
  • v  give away information about somebody
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grass-of-parnassus
  • n  any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
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