different between grapnel vs grape

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin (French grappin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æpn?l/

Noun

grapnel (plural grapnels)

1. (nautical) A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.
   • 1599, The fift voyage of M. Iohn VVhite into the VVest Indies and parts of America called Virginia, in the yeere 1590 in Richard Hakluyt (editor), The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, Volume 3, p. 292,^[1]

     […] we espied towards the North end of the Iland ye light of a great fire thorow the woods, to the which we presently rowed: when wee came right ouer against it, we let fall our Grapnel neere the shore, & sounded with a trumpet a Call […]

   • 1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty, London: George Nicol, Entry for 1 June, 1789,^[2]

     At dawn of day we got on shore, and tracked the boat into shelter; for the wind blowing fresh without, and the ground being rocky, I was afraid to trust her at a grapnel, lest she might be blown to sea: I was, therefore, obliged to let her ground in the course of the ebb.

2. a device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope.
3. (nautical) A grappling iron.
   • 1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: E. Newbery, Part II, p. 233,^[3]

     […] the wind dying away, the signal was made for casting anchor, when both ships came to in 26 fathom water; but the Resolution expecting to come to with her small stream anchor, let the whole run out, and lost both anchor and hauser, besides the ship’s grapnel in looking for it.

   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 22,^[4]

     “ […] Why, you’ve flung your grapnel over the doctor, and he’s coming courting forthwith.”

   • 1936, Rafael Sabatini, “Sacrilege” in The Fortunes of Captain Blood,^[5]

     But by the mercy o’ God to heretics, what were left o’ my poor ship got a hold on that guarda-costa’s timbers wi’ her grapnels, what time we climbs aboard her.

Translations

Verb

grapnel (third-person singular simple present grapnels, present participle grapnelling, simple past and past participle grapnelled)

1. (transitive, nautical) To connect (ships) with a grapnel.

English

Etymology

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krapp? (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). More at cramp.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?p, IPA^(key): /??e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)

1. (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
2. (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
3. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.

4. (uncountable) grapeshot.
5. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
6. (US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.

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Adjective

grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

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See also

Verb

grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)

1. To pick grapes.
2. (of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
4. (dialect, north, Britain) To grope.
5. (dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).

Anagrams

• gaper, pager, parge

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrugt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?jb/, [????jb?], [????jb?]

Noun

grape c (singular definite grapen, plural indefinite graper)

1. A grapefruit.

Inflection

Synonyms

• grapefrugt

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rape]

Noun

grape f pl

1. indefinite plural of grap?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of grap?

Spanish

Verb

grape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grapar.

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of grapefrukt.

Noun

grape c

1. grapefruit