grapnel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɡɹæpnəl/

Noun

(nautical) A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.

Japanese Meaning

（海事用語）小型の錨。複数のフルーク（先の部分）を持ち、小型船の停泊に用いられる錨

What is this buttons?

She threw the grapnel overboard and felt it bite into the seabed, securing the dinghy.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は小型の錨を海に投げ入れ、それが海底に食い込み、係留艇を固定したのを感じた。

Details

Sense（1）

(nautical) A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.

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.

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Details

Sense（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.

Sense（3）

(nautical) A grappling iron.

[…] 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.

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