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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]
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.
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.
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Lifting hook on a crane truck with a standard round hook and a gated opening A cabin hook used as a latch for a wooden gate Fish hooks are pointed and often barbed to help catch and tether a fish's mouth The main anchor of IJN battleship Hiei with the classic double-hook design Clothes hangers with a top hook to hang onto a crossbar or a clothesline A grappling hook with multiple hooks to ...
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