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Verb
engrapple (third-person singular simple present engrapples, present participle engrappling, simple past and past participle engrappled)
- (obsolete) To grapple.
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: J G W L and W G, published 1662, →OCLC:A cub-fox drinking out of the river Arnus in Italy had his head seized on by a mighty Pike, so that neither could free themselves but were engrappled together […]
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