engrapple

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engrapple (third-person singular simple present engrapples, present participle engrappling, simple past and past participle engrappled)

  1. (obsolete) To grapple.
    • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: [] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
      A cub-fox drinking out of the river Arnus in Italy had his head seized on by a mighty Pike, so that neither could free themselves but were engrappled together []

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