grappling iron

How to use grappling iron in a sentence

• Darwin began to put down a grappling iron on the outer side of the reef and to drag up coral.

  The Meaning of Evolution | Samuel Christian Schmucker

• The ketch was slowly drifting down until a grappling-iron could almost be thrown aboard.

  Pike & Cutlass | George Gibbs

• Beaudry brought to the meeting-place a quarter-inch rope and a grappling-iron with three hooks.

  The Sheriff's Son | William MacLeod Raine

• Litton could not speak; but he threw a look that was like a grappling-iron and Teed came back.

  In a Little Town | Rupert Hughes

• Jimmy, the fair-haired pirate, hauled in on the alders and flung a grappling iron aboard my bank, which presently he ascended.

  The Lady and the Pirate | Emerson Hough