grapper

grapper englanniksi

1. A metal ring or leather strap on the base of a lance behind the grip, designed to stop the lance from moving backward by catching on the rest or on the lancer's chest and arm when the lance was tucked into the armpit.

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2. 1997, Professor Department of History Sydney Anglo, Sydney Anglo, ''Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy'', Oxford University Press on Demand

Likewise , if the jouster&39;s spear were tied with &39;thonge&39; or &39;grappers&39;, he should be ejected ignominiously.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Noel Fallows|title=Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=9781843835943|page=119

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Karl Edward Wagner|title=Dark Crusade|publisher=Gateway|isbn=9780575096110

5. {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Deborah Chester|title=Time Trap|publisher=Diversion Books|isbn=9781626815933

6. {{quote-book|en|year=2020|author=Alan V. Murray; Karen Watts|title=The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781783275427|page=80

7. A hook or iron.

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1625|author=John Glanvill|title=Voyage to Cadis|page=61

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1676|author=Henry More|title=Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses|page=145

10. 1905 (quoting an older work?), ''Essentials in Medieval and Modern History'', page 230:

Then began a sore battle on both parts: archers and cross-bows began to shoot, and men of arms approached and fought hand to hand, and the better to come together they had great hooks and grappers of iron to cast out of one ship into another, and so tied them fast together.

11. 1910 (quoting an older work?), ''Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern'', page 161:

(..) we sailed in towards the city, and let fall our grappers irons betwixt the island and the Main, right over against the goodly Garden Island.

12. to pick grapes

13. (alternative form of)