grapplement
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
grapplement (uncountable)
- (archaic) A grappling; close fight or embrace.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd
With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement
References edit
- “grapplement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.