Grapple may refer to:

Actions

Grappling Grappling, in hand-to-hand combat, describes sports that consist of gripping or seizing the opponent. Grappling is used at close range to gain a physical advantage over an opponent, either by imposing a position or causing injury. Grappling i ...

, techniques, maneuvers, and counters applied to an opponent in order to gain a physical advantage *

Grapple tackle A grapple tackle is a controversial tackling technique used in rugby league. It has gained notoriety in Australia's National Rugby League competition whereby the tackler attempts to impede the ball carrier by applying a chokehold-like grip. Altho ...

, a controversial tackling technique used in rugby league *

Submission wrestling Submission wrestling, also known as Submission grappling, Submission fighting a form of competition and a general term for martial arts and combat sports that focus on clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a submission through the ...

(also submission grappling), a formula of competition

Technology and vehicles

Grappling hook A grappling hook or grapnel is a device that typically has multiple hooks (known as ''claws'' or ''flukes'') attached to a rope; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hol ...

, a hook or claw used to catch or hold something * Grapple

skidder A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (o ...

, type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest *

Grapple truck A grapple truck is a truck that has a grapple loader mounted to its frame which is used for loading and sometimes hauling bulky waste. A grapple loader is defined by ANSI Z245.1 as: “a hydro-mechanical device able to rotate on an axis with ...

, a truck that has a grapple loader mounted to its frame *

Grapple (network layer) Linux Game Publishing (sometimes also referred to as LGP) was a software company based in Nottingham in England. It ported, published and sold video games running on Linux operating systems. As well as porting games, LGP also sponsored the deve ...

, a free software package for adding multiplayer support to computer games and applications *

Grapple fixture Grapple fixtures are used on spacecraft or other objects to provide a secure connection for a robotic arm. North America The fixtures allowed the Space Shuttle's Canadarm (also known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, or SRMS) to safely g ...

, on spacecraft or other objects to provide a secure connection for a robotic arm

Military

Operation Grapple Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Paci ...

, a series of United Kingdom nuclear weapon tests *

Operation Grapple (Yugoslavia) Operation Grapple was the codeword used to cover UK defence operations in support of the UN peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia (authorised by UNSCR 776 of September 1992); including the deployment of British forces in Bosnia and C ...

, codename given to the deployment of British forces in Bosnia from 1992 * , a ''Safeguard''-class salvage ship in the United States Navy * , a ''Diver''-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy

Plants and food

Grāpple Grāpple ( ) is the registered brand name for a commercially marketed brand of Fuji or Gala apple that has been soaked in a solution of concentrated grape flavor (methyl anthranilate) and water in order to make the flesh taste like a Concord gra ...

, the brand name of a commercially marketed grape-flavored apple * A combination of

grape A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago, ...

and

apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...

flavors. * ''

Harpagophytum ''Harpagophytum'' ( ), also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil's claw, is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their common name "devil's claw" to the peculiar app ...

procumbens'' (also grapple plant), a plant of the sesame family

In fiction

Grapple (Transformers) ''The Transformers'' is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in Broadcast syndication, syndication based upon Hasbro's Transformers (toy line), ''Transformers'' toy line. T ...

, an Autobot from the second season of ''The Transformers'' TV series *

Grappler (comics) Gaea Gaea is one of the Elder Gods of Earth. Gaia Gaia, also known as the Guardian of the Universal Amalgamator, is a fictional superhero, depicted as possibly being a mutant or extraterrestrial. Created by Larry Hama, she first appeared in ' ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe * '' Settling Accounts: The Grapple'', the third book in the Settling Accounts series by Harry Turtledove

Actions

Technology and vehicles

Military

Plants and food

In fiction

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