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2. Grappling hook - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Batman's utility belt - Wikipedia

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   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 January 1991

4. Batarang - Wikipedia

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   The batarangs are collapsible and come in a variety of forms including electrical versions to take down Inque, explosive versions to demolish obstacles, and grappling hooks. In the Justice League animated series, Batman employed a variety of Batarangs, including explosive Batarangs and electrically charged variants.

5. 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]

6. Roman navy - Wikipedia

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   During the Civil Wars, a number of technical innovations, which are attributed to Agrippa, [101] took place: the harpax, a catapult-fired grappling hook, which was used to clamp onto an enemy ship, reel it in and board it, in a much more efficient way than with the old corvus, and the use of collapsible fighting towers placed one apiece bow and ...

7. Buck Knives - Wikipedia

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   In 1984, Buck introduced a survival knife with a hollow handle for storage and a 7.5 inch blade with a serrated spine and prongs so the knife could double as a grappling hook. [10] Dubbed the Buckmaster (Model 184), it was marketed to the military and fans of the Rambo films of the 1980s. [1]