grappling iron

Questions about grappling iron

What does grappling iron mean?

grappling iron means "a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope".

What is another word for grappling iron?

Close synonyms include grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grappling iron a common word?

grappling iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.