Read full poem →I REMEMBER the Chillicothe ball players grappling the
Rock Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game
Dictionary Entry
To seize something and hold it firmly.
Origin
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Common Phrases
hooks grapplinghook grapplingirons grappling. grappling
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Poetry examples for “grappling”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →They drift as wrecks on the tide,
The grappling-irons are plied,
The boarders climb up the side,
Read full poem →While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,
Flounders in mud. O Jesus, make it stop!
Read full poem →In outcast gloom convulsed and jagged and riven
By grappling guns. Love drove me to rebel.
Love drives me back to grope with them through hell;
Read full poem →And, stung to rage by his own darting fires,
Reaches with grappling coils from town to town;
He lusts to break the loveliness of spires,
Read full poem →But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing,
grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse
Read full poem →My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased