"grapper" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹæpəɹ/ Forms: grappers [plural]
Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ) Etymology: Related to grapple. Head templates: {{en-noun}} grapper (plural grappers)
  1. A metal ring or leather strap on the base of a lance behind the grip, designed to stop the lance from moving backward by catching on the lance rest or on the lancer's chest and arm when the lance was tucked into the armpit. Synonyms: grate Translations (ring on a lance): arrêt de lance [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-grapper-en-noun-OVfiYXMc Disambiguation of 'ring on a lance': 94 6
  2. (obsolete) A grappling hook or grappling iron. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-grapper-en-noun-Dlted9LU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63

Verb [Middle French]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], grapper [infinitive], avoir + past participle [infinitive, multiword-construction], grappant [gerund, participle, present]
Head templates: {{head|frm|verb}} grapper
  1. to pick grapes
    Sense id: en-grapper-frm-verb-dUHKxgjB Categories (other): Middle French entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Old French]

Head templates: {{head|fro|verb}} grapper Inflection templates: {{fro-conj-er}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], grapper [infinitive], avoir grappé [infinitive, multiword-construction], en grappant [gerund], gerund of avoir + past participle [gerund, multiword-construction], grappant [participle, present], grappé [participle, past], grap [first-person, indicative, present, singular], grappes [indicative, present, second-person, singular], grappe [indicative, present, singular, third-person], grappons [first-person, indicative, plural, present], grappez [indicative, plural, present, second-person], grappent [indicative, plural, present, third-person], grappoie [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], grappeie [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], grappoe [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], grappeve [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], grappoies [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], grappeies [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], grappoes [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], grappeves [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], grappoit [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], grappeit [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], grappot [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], grappeve [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], grappiiens [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], grappiens [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], grappiiez [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], grappiez [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], grappoient [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], grappeient [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], grappoent [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], grappevent [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], grappai [first-person, indicative, preterite, singular], grappas [indicative, preterite, second-person, singular], grappa [indicative, preterite, singular, third-person], grappames [first-person, indicative, plural, preterite], grappastes [indicative, plural, preterite, second-person], grapperent [indicative, plural, preterite, third-person], grapperai [first-person, future, indicative, singular], grapperas [future, indicative, second-person, singular], grappera [future, indicative, singular, third-person], grapperons [first-person, future, indicative, plural], grapperoiz [future, indicative, plural, second-person], grappereiz [future, indicative, plural, second-person], grapperez [future, indicative, plural, second-person], grapperont [future, indicative, plural, third-person], grapperoie [conditional, first-person, singular], grappereie [conditional, first-person, singular], grapperoies [conditional, second-person, singular], grappereies [conditional, second-person, singular], grapperoit [conditional, singular, third-person], grappereit [conditional, singular, third-person], grapperiiens [conditional, first-person, plural], grapperiens [conditional, first-person, plural], grapperiiez [conditional, plural, second-person], grapperiez [conditional, plural, second-person], grapperoient [conditional, plural, third-person], grappereient [conditional, plural, third-person], present tense of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, present], imperfect tense of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect], preterite tense of avoir + past participle [anterior, indicative, multiword-construction, past], future tense of avoir + past participle [future, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect], conditional tense of avoir + past participle [conditional, multiword-construction, perfect], grap [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], gras [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], grat [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], grappons [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], grappez [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], grappent [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], grappasse [first-person, imperfect, singular, subjunctive], grappasses [imperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive], grappast [imperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], grappissons [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], grappissiens [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], grappissoiz [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], grappissez [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], grappissiez [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], grappassent [imperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], present subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, past, subjunctive], imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, pluperfect, subjunctive], grappe [imperative, second-person, singular], grappons [first-person, imperative, plural], grappez [imperative, plural, second-person]
  1. Alternative form of graper Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: graper

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Related to grapple.",
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      "form": "grappers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1997, Professor Department of History Sydney Anglo, Sydney Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy, Oxford University Press on Demand\nLikewise , if the jouster's spear were tied with 'thonge' or 'grappers', he should be ejected ignominiously."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, page 119",
          "text": "[Grappers] were first introduced in the early fourteenth century and became standard after the introduction of the lance-rest in the late 1300s. A description of the grapper as it was configured in 1446 is provided in an anonymous French manuscript as follows: Item, the said grappers are intentionally full of sharp little spikes like little diamonds, similar in size to little ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Dark Crusade, Gateway",
          "text": "Nor was the danger entirely at the point of the lance. An inexpert lancer, because the grapper transmitted much of the shock to the feltlined lance arrest secured to the right side of his breastplate, might be flung from saddle […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Deborah Chester, Time Trap, Diversion Books",
          "text": "It's got a lance rest to fit the grapper to. It makes the whole breastplate take the shock, and not just his arm. You brace the end against your side; that'll give you firmer balance, see?” Noel nodded, and Tobin sprang away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Alan V. Murray, Karen Watts, The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600, Boydell & Brewer, page 80",
          "text": "But do not joust (to break) fifty or sixty or one hundred lances as you are accustomed to do. To avoid such unpleasantries as severe injuries […] The grapper or (in its earlier name) grate was affixed to the lance behind the grip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A metal ring or leather strap on the base of a lance behind the grip, designed to stop the lance from moving backward by catching on the lance rest or on the lancer's chest and arm when the lance was tucked into the armpit."
      ],
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        [
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          "lance rest"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "grate"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "ring on a lance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "arrêt de lance"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1625, John Glanvill, Voyage to Cadis, page 61",
          "text": "We fastned grappers in her, and soe towed her a head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1676, Henry More, Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses, page 145",
          "text": "Without the help of vellicles, hooks, or grappers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905 (quoting an older work?), Essentials in Medieval and Modern History, page 230",
          "text": "Then began a sore battle on both parts: archers and cross-bows began to shoot, and men of arms approached and fought hand to hand, and the better to come together they had great hooks and grappers of iron to cast out of one ship into another, and so tied them fast together."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 (quoting an older work?), Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern, page 161",
          "text": "[…] we sailed in towards the city, and let fall our grappers [grappling irons] betwixt the island and the Main, right over against the goodly Garden Island."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A grappling hook or grappling iron."
      ],
      "id": "en-grapper-en-noun-Dlted9LU",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A grappling hook or grappling iron."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹæpəɹ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æpə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grapper"
}

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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "m",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapper",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grappant",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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      "form": "en grappant",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      ]
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grap",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grappe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grappez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeves",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappot",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappevent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappames",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappastes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappera",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperont",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preterite tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "anterior",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "future tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conditional tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grap",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gras",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grat",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappasse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappasses",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappissons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappissiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappissoiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappissez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappissiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappassent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "past",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "grapper",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "fro-conj-er"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "graper"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French verbs ending in -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French verbs with weak-a preterite",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of graper"
      ],
      "id": "en-grapper-fro-verb-d7bHq5ng",
      "links": [
        [
          "graper",
          "graper#Old French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grapper"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:English/æpə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/æpə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Related to grapple.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grappers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "grapper (plural grappers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1997, Professor Department of History Sydney Anglo, Sydney Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy, Oxford University Press on Demand\nLikewise , if the jouster's spear were tied with 'thonge' or 'grappers', he should be ejected ignominiously."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, page 119",
          "text": "[Grappers] were first introduced in the early fourteenth century and became standard after the introduction of the lance-rest in the late 1300s. A description of the grapper as it was configured in 1446 is provided in an anonymous French manuscript as follows: Item, the said grappers are intentionally full of sharp little spikes like little diamonds, similar in size to little ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Dark Crusade, Gateway",
          "text": "Nor was the danger entirely at the point of the lance. An inexpert lancer, because the grapper transmitted much of the shock to the feltlined lance arrest secured to the right side of his breastplate, might be flung from saddle […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Deborah Chester, Time Trap, Diversion Books",
          "text": "It's got a lance rest to fit the grapper to. It makes the whole breastplate take the shock, and not just his arm. You brace the end against your side; that'll give you firmer balance, see?” Noel nodded, and Tobin sprang away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Alan V. Murray, Karen Watts, The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600, Boydell & Brewer, page 80",
          "text": "But do not joust (to break) fifty or sixty or one hundred lances as you are accustomed to do. To avoid such unpleasantries as severe injuries […] The grapper or (in its earlier name) grate was affixed to the lance behind the grip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metal ring or leather strap on the base of a lance behind the grip, designed to stop the lance from moving backward by catching on the lance rest or on the lancer's chest and arm when the lance was tucked into the armpit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grip",
          "grip"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "lance rest",
          "lance rest"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grate"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1625, John Glanvill, Voyage to Cadis, page 61",
          "text": "We fastned grappers in her, and soe towed her a head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1676, Henry More, Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses, page 145",
          "text": "Without the help of vellicles, hooks, or grappers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905 (quoting an older work?), Essentials in Medieval and Modern History, page 230",
          "text": "Then began a sore battle on both parts: archers and cross-bows began to shoot, and men of arms approached and fought hand to hand, and the better to come together they had great hooks and grappers of iron to cast out of one ship into another, and so tied them fast together."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 (quoting an older work?), Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern, page 161",
          "text": "[…] we sailed in towards the city, and let fall our grappers [grappling irons] betwixt the island and the Main, right over against the goodly Garden Island."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A grappling hook or grappling iron."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grappling hook",
          "grappling hook"
        ],
        [
          "grappling iron",
          "grappling iron"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A grappling hook or grappling iron."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹæpəɹ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æpə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ring on a lance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arrêt de lance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grapper"
}

{
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "m",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapper",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
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      "form": "grappant",
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        "present"
      ]
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      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang_code": "frm",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle French entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle French first group verbs",
        "Middle French lemmas",
        "Middle French verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pick grapes"
      ],
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        [
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          "pick"
        ],
        [
          "grape",
          "grape"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fro-conj-er",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapper",
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
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    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en grappant",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gerund of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappant",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappé",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grap",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappes",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappe",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappez",
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      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappent",
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        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoie",
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      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeves",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappot",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappeient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappoent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappevent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappames",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappastes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappera",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperont",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grapperoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grappereient",
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