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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.
Super QuickHook is a 2D platformer where players play as one of 6 different characters as they traverse terrain and levels using a grappling hook, [3] which is used by touching the screen. [6] The player also has a pair of rocket boots , [ 7 ] which can propel the player forward when used, in addition to Slick-pants, which allows players to ...
Flesh-hook, used in cooking meat; Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target; Hook and chain coupler, mechanical part for the coupling for railway vehicles; Hook (hand tool), also known as longshoreman's hook and bale hook, a tool used for securing and moving loads; Hook-and-eye closure, a clothing ...
Snagging chinook salmon. Snagging, also known as snag fishing, snatching, snatch fishing, jagging (Australia), or foul hooking, is a fishing technique for catching fish that uses sharp grappling hooks tethered to a fishing line to externally pierce (i.e. "snag") into the flesh of nearby fish, without needing the fish to swallow any hook with its mouth like in angling.
Antique Japanese iron kaginawa climbing hook. Kaginawa (鈎縄 or 鉤縄, lit. "hook-rope" [1]) 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. Kaginawa have several configurations, from one to four hooks.
The second technique was to place a boarding party onto a dory, gig, or another type of small boat, row it alongside the target, and then climb aboard by using grappling hooks or the steps built into some ship's sides. The cinematic method of throwing a grappling line into the enemy's rigging or yards and then swinging aboard does not appear to ...
A screenshot of the game interface from RuneScape in 2012. Players begin in a secluded area called Tutorial Island, where they are taken through a tutorial, a set path where they learn the most basic skills in RuneScape.
His device kept a cable suspended between the two ships taut, with a quick-release hook that could travel up and down the line with the use of a winch. [4] The first test of the device involved the collier Marcellus and battleship Massachusetts. [5] The Royal Navy embarked on more extensive trials in 1901, and achieved a rate of 19 tons per hour.