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2. Grapple (tool) - Wikipedia

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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]

3. Grappling hook - Wikipedia

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   A grapnel can clear up to 99% of the trip-wires in a single pass. [8] During WW2 British and German ships towed grappling hooks in the hope of snagging or damaging enemy submarines, [9] a tactic also employed by the Japanese. [10] Grappling hooks were used by soldiers at the D-Day landings to aid in climbing the cliffs at the Normandy beaches ...

4. Rock-climbing equipment - Wikipedia

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   Climbers instead use cord (or "accessory cord"), which is a length of thinner approximately 4 to 8 mm (0.16 to 0.31 in) static kernmantle rope, tied via a double fisherman's knot into closed loops of any size. [1] [11] Cord loops (also known as "cordelettes") serve a wide variety of functions in rock climbing.

5. Kaginawa - Wikipedia

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   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. Kaginawa have several configurations, from one ...

6. Hook - Wikipedia

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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 ...

7. Anchor - Wikipedia

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   One method of accomplishing this moor is to set a bow anchor normally, then drop back to the limit of the bow cable (or to double the desired scope, e.g. 8:1 if the eventual scope should be 4:1, 10:1 if the eventual scope should be 5:1, etc.) to lower a stern anchor. [50]