- As well as the
grapnel anchor,
grapnels are used in the
removal and
repair of
subsea cables.
Large cable layer ships drag huge
grapnels across the seabed...
-
vessels were
either scaled-down
versions of
admiralty anchors, or
simple grapnels. As new
designs with
greater holding-power-to-weight
ratios were sought...
-
minesweepers date to that war and
consisted of
British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines. A
sweep is
either a
contact sweep, a wire
dragged through...
-
Arkham Asylum and in Batman:
Arkham City a more
advanced version called the
Grapnel was
introduced which could be used to
launch Batman into the air to glide...
- irons". Many
poles protruded in
front of the
wagons and had fire-bearing
grapnels wrapped in
cloth daubed with pitch. The
wagons carried bowmen, hurlers...
- deplo**** by the British. The
Crimean War
minesweepers were
rowboats trailing grapnels to snag mines.
Minesweeping technology picked up in the Russo-****anese...
- the city,
which consists of two
silver anchors (a
fluked anchor, and a
grapnel anchor), and a gold
scepter with the coat of arms of Russia. The anchors...
- on such,
notably for the
subject matter,
primitive anchors and
drags (
grapnel anchors) made from
severed spruce tops or
branchy bush
trunks out****ed...
-
bridge trenches and the 13-foot-wide (4 m)
German tank traps.
Special "
grapnel tanks"
towed hooks to pull away the
German barbed wire. The
attack was...
- pasture', sarcinārius 'used for ****ng, loading' → shelqëror 'forked peg,
grapnel,
forked hanger', sōlānum 'nightshade', lit. 'sun plant' → shullë(r) 'sunny...
