Meaning

To release from a grappling hook..

Definitions by Sense

1. To release from a grappling hook.
2. (more generally) To disengage; to release from being held.

Example Sentences

But, the waves of the sea growing high, we were forced to ungrapple, and to leave our men fighting on board her from eight of the clock in the evening till eight in the morning.

We need to ungrapple La Vipère. I cannot risk having the fire spread.

If both players want to ungrapple, it is automatic and no roll is required. If ungrappling succeeds then the ships are moved slightly apart and combat ceases.

But then the fear of further obloquy and ridicule makes them desist from the open enmity they still feel in their secret hearts, and like the two Demons, as we read in the lines that follow, they find the place so hot for them, that they ungrapple from their deadly contention.

The Monk uttering these words in choler, as he past under a walnet-tree, in his way towards the Causey, he broached the vizor of his helmet on the stump of a great branch of the said tree: neverthelesse, he set his spurres so fiercely to the horse, who was full of mettal, and quick on the spurre, that he bounded forwards, and the Monk going about to ungrapple his vizor, let go his hold of the bridle, and so hanged by his hand upon the bough, whilest his horse stole away from under him.

The lifting beam assembly is automatic and is manually set by the operator to automatically grapple or ungrapple with the stoplog assembly

Word Forms

• ungrapples
• ungrappling
• ungrappled

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When Should You Use Ungrapple?

Use ungrapple when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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