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ungrapple

verb

Etymology

From un- + grapple.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to gather, rake, grab, seize”
  2. derived from *grabōną✻ — “to gather, rake”
  3. derived from *grabbōn✻
  4. derived from gravan
  5. borrowed from grabben — “to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”
  6. borrowed from grabben
  7. suffixed as grapple — “grab + le”
  8. prefixed as ungrapple — “un + grapple”

Definitions

  1. To release from a grappling hook.

    • But, the waves of the sea growing high, we were forced to ungrapple, and to leave our men fighting on board her from eight of the clock in the evening till eight in the morning.
    • We need to ungrapple La Vipère. I cannot risk having the fire spread.
    • If both players want to ungrapple, it is automatic and no roll is required. If ungrappling succeeds then the ships are moved slightly apart and combat ceases.

  2. To disengage

    To disengage; to release from being held.

    • The lifting beam assembly is automatic and is manually set by the operator to automatically grapple or ungrapple with the stoplog assembly

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ungrapple. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA