different between intertwine vs grapple

English

Etymology

inter- +? twine

Verb

intertwine (third-person singular simple present intertwines, present participle intertwining, simple past and past participle intertwined)

1. (transitive) To twine something together.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 240c.

     You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way.

2. (intransitive) To become twined together.

Synonyms

• (twine around each other): entwine

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• graple (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: gr?p??l, IPA^(key): /???æp?l/
• Rhymes: -æp?l
• Hyphenation: grap?ple

Etymology 1

From Middle English *grapplen (“to seize, lay hold of”), from Old English *græpplian (“to seize”) (compare Old English ?egræppian (“to seize”)), from Proto-Germanic *graipil?n?, *grabbal?n? (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to take, seize, rake”), equivalent to grab +? -le. Cognate with Dutch grabbelen (“to grope, scramble, scrabble”), German grabbeln (“to rummage, grope about”) and grapsen, grapschen (“to seize, grasp, grabble”). Influenced in some senses by grapple (“tool with claws or hooks”, noun) (see below). See further at grasp.

Verb

grapple (third-person singular simple present grapples, present participle grappling, simple past and past participle grappled)

1. (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
2. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
3. (figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.

Translations

Noun

grapple (countable and uncountable, plural grapples)

1. A close hand-to-hand struggle; (uncountable) the act of grappling.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *grapple, *graple, from Old French grappil (“a ship's grapple”) (compare Old French grappin (“hook”)), from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krapp? (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). See further at grape. Influenced in some senses by grapple (“seize”, verb) (see above).

Noun

grapple (plural grapples)

1. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
   1. (nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
   2. (nautical) A grapnel (“type of anchor”).

Translations

Verb

grapple (third-person singular simple present grapples, present participle grappling, simple past and past participle grappled)

1. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.

   • The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.

   • 1901, Leonard Charles Smithers, Oriental Tales, page 291:

     […] he provided himself with thieves' tackle and repaired to the house of the vizier in question, where he grappled a rope ladder with grappling irons to the battlements and climbed up to the roof of the palace .

   • 1914, Proceedings of the International Anti-vivisection and Animal Protection Congress, Held at Washington, D.C., December 8th to 11th, 1913, page 51:

     [Animals are hung] one by one, by a chain or rope grappled about a hind ankle, and carried, thus suspended, by an overhead device, to where the sticker stands. As rapidly as he can thrust his knife into the throat he does his work.

   • 1988, Roger Lichtenberg Simon, Raising the dead (?ISBN)

     Then I saw it — a figure swinging just above the arches, hanging from rope grappled to a lintel of an alcove fifty feet above. It had to be Gordie.

   • 1997, European Conference on Security and Detection - ECOS97, Incorporating the One Day Symposium on Technology Used for Combating Fraud: 28-30 April 1997, Venue, Commomwealth Institute, London

     These toppings impart a swaying motion to anyone climbing a rope grappled onto them, making climbing difficult. This form of topping is worthy of further study.

   • 2012, Rudy Rodriguez, Before There Was, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 448:

     He had one of the ropes grappled around a ledge of a window and the other end around his ankle for safety purposes, not really expecting it to come into play. He falls at such an accelerated speed that when the rope becomes taut, it spikes ...

   • 2014, Robert E. Waters, The Wayward Eight: A Contract to Die For, Winged Hussar Publishing (?ISBN):

     The men scrambled down the three ropes that had been grappled up the shaft.

   • 2015, Chris Allen, Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3), Pan (?ISBN)

     Morgan recoiled, ready to fend off another attack, but the rope grappled him back against the fence.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
   • 2012, Allen G. Davison, The Blessed (?ISBN), page 149:

     Sam quickly geared up and placed the first hook. “I am coming as well,” Alicia announced. […] Sam planted the anchor and then grappled down as Alicia struggled to move more than a foot or shift down.

   • 2016, Cora Buhlert, St. Nicholas of Hell's Kitchen: An Silencer Holiday Story, Pegasus Pulp Publishing (?ISBN), page 27:

     In cases such as this, the Silencer usually grappled up the outside of the building. But Rumpus' tower was sixty storeys tall […]

   • 2016, Russ Katz, The Principal's Daughter, Dog Ear Publishing (?ISBN), page 5:

     I made haste and grappled up the next branch, determined to get to the top first.

   • 2017, Edward W. Robertson, Freefall:

     MacAdams didn't look back to see what they were up to, just ran across the flat roof and grappled down the other side of the building.

   • 2020, Adair Hart, The Earthborn Box Set: Books 1-3, Quantum Edge Publishing (?ISBN)

     He grappled up the tree and perched himself on a branch that gave him a good view over the most of the jungle.

   • 2020, Siddhartha Thorat, Operation Hellfire (Sristhi Publishers & Distributors, ?ISBN)

     As soon as the snipers had confirmed that the roof was clear, the commandos had grappled up the five stories. They had used a grappling hook called Tactical Air Initiated Launch (TAIL) System which could shoot a grappling hook using […]

3. (intransitive) To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
   • 1912, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, page 126:

     The following days I spent patrolling the river and grappling for nets. On Wednesday , 18th July , left Gananoque at 7 a.m.; patrolled down to Rockport, […]

   • 2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier (?ISBN), page 427:

     After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made […]

4. (transitive, intransitive) To hook and raise with a grapple.
   • 1861, Report of the Joint Committee Appointed by the Lords of the Committee of [Great British] Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company, page 263:

     The place where the cable got jammed and broken at the bottom was two or three miles from where I grappled up the cable the first time. I do not, of course, know for certain whether rocks with crevices exist.

   • 1908, New York (State). Court of Appeals., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs:

     [page 11:] Weston had just grappled the net, when we saw the light corning up the lake.

     [page 15:] A. About an hour and a half after dark with Weston I rowed across to this point where the net was set, and he, with a grappling hook, grappled up the net.

References

• “grapple”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.