Usually means: Device for grappling or seizing.
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  1. Harpax, harpax: Wordnik
  2. Harpax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Harpax: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  4. harpax: Wiktionary

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  1. harpax-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Definitions from Wiktionary (harpax)

noun:  (historical) An Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel.


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