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Ancient Japanese iron kaginawa climbing hook A chain grapnel – used to recover a cable from the seabed. A grappling hook or grapnel is a device that typically has multiple hooks (known as claws or flukes) attached to a rope or cable; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hold on to objects.
Antique Japanese iron kaginawa climbing hook. Kaginawa (鈎縄/鉤縄) is the combination of the words kagi meaning hook and nawa meaning rope. [1] The kaginawa is a type of grappling hook used as a tool in feudal Japan by the samurai class, their retainers, foot soldiers and reportedly by ninja.
A grapple is a hook or claw used to catch or hold something. A ship's anchor is a type of grapple, especially the "grapnel" anchor.. A soldier loading a hook. A throwing grapple, kaginawa (or "grappling hook" ) is a multi-pronged hook that is tied to a rope and thrown/launched to catch a grip, as on a parapet or branch of a tree. [1]
Hooks are steel hooks of various shapes (e.g. bat hook, talon hook, grappling hook, etc.,) that are hung from cracks and flakes (e.g. the fifi hook and skyhook). They are mostly used in aid climbing but have been used in extreme traditional climbing routes as a last resort where the hook placement may not withstand a dynamic fall.
A rifle-like grappling gun first appeared in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1. However, the now standard hand-held version of Batman's grappling gun first appeared in the 1989 Batman film. It gradually replaced the batarang and a rope in the comics after artist Norm Breyfogle introduced a grapple gun in Batman #458 in
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Grappling belt A size 34 leather belt that conceals a piton gun hidden behind the buckle. It can fire out up to 75 feet (23 m) of high tensile wire designed to support the weight of an average person. [3] [87] Parker Jotter ballpoint pen grenade Contains a class-four grenade. A four-second fuse is armed after three clicks in succession.
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