grapplement en · NOUN
Etymology
From grapple + -ment.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) A grappling; close fight or embrace.
Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: