What is "grappler"

Usage examples of "grappler".

When the advance party had established a foothold on Theeo, the grapplers would be strategically placed by them.

They simply took advantage of it and watched the twenty grapplers closing in.

Kalal was squatting at the prow, beyond that ramshackle but which Jalila now knew contained the pheromones and grapplers which were needed to ensnare the tideflowers which this craft had been built to harvest.

Gugglerun moat, the grapplers crouched beneath their heavy wooden shields and waited while the sharp blows of the black-clad archers reduced their protection to pincushions, with an incessant rattle like hail on a shed roof.

Murdan saw that none of the grapplers fell in the first volley from the walls.

Even worse, if they hit the pod at a wrong angle, rather than latching on, the grapplers could ricochet off the vessel, sending it tumbling in another direction and doing even more damage to the already battered team aboard.

One positioned itself alongside the visitor while the other severed the single grappler.

Nereide, Otter, the brig Grappler which they had retaken at St Paul's, and a couple of fore-and-aft rigged avisoes, from the same source: to leeward the Windham Indiaman, with parties from each ship repairing the damage caused by the blow and the violence of the enemy, watched by the philosophical French prize-crew.

Dozens of coralskippers were being hauled down into the boras by grappler ships—all except for the poisoned vessel, which six unpiloted insectile craft were tugging back up the gravity well.