Ship hooks

Usage examples of grapples.

It must be wired with infinitely minute equipment -- microscope grapples and wires invisible to the naked eye.

Dixon stood dazed, mouth open, uncomprehending, as the grapples closed around his arms and legs.

Its side doors fell away and its grapples ran out their full lengths, lithe and wary.

Its sides were dented and warped from use, but its grapples were still strong and powerful.

At once the green Nanny rose on its back treads, its grapples leaping out.

The green Nanny moved awkwardly to meet it, raising its grapples and preparing its internal shields.

The last direction of g confirmed itself and the grapples clanged home, the access thumped into position.

The grapples clanged loose and a telltale said they had retracted all the way.

Pyanfar warned over allship, and cleared The Pride's own grapples, her grip on station independent of the station's grip on her: those boomed into the housing, and undocking jets eased them clear.

The enemy ship shuddered, held by the buffer slings' adhesive coating and the taut grapples behind.

In the next trough, he released the wrist grapples, flung himself upward, and locked the wrists again just as the next wave hit.

She put her hands into the gloves, too, and made sure the wrist and boot grapples were locked back.

The grapples were "negative feedback" waldo-bands with sensor-augmented faked sensation so that your hand could "feel" what the grapples felt through the software as they engaged with a solid object.

Gabriel felt his way toward the body, opened the fingers of the grapples, and closed them carefully around it.

When the airlock was closed again, Gabriel activated the secondary grapples mounted inside the cargo bay, the ones used for handling rocks inside the bay, and carefully opened the other airlock door.