grapplement

noun

grapplement

noun

Etymology From grapple + -ment.

1

Archaic A grappling; close fight or embrace.

Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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