grappling iron

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“Weel, lad, what luck?” enquired Spink, as Swankie and he met—the former with a grappling iron on his shoulder, the latter staggering under the weight of a mass of metal.

From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The cable car must close its grappling iron and grip the cable before progress can be made.

From The Jericho Road by Adkins, W. Bion

Then he took his naked sword in one hand and his grappling iron in the other, and repairing to the Khalif's pavilion, cast his grapnel on to the roof.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

The trap will seldom be drawn more than twenty yards from the spot, and with a grappling iron is soon recovered.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

At that instant I suddenly arose and threw the grappling iron.

From Tales of the Fish Patrol by Varian, George