Usually means: Tool for catching, climbing, or securing.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. grappling hook: Merriam-Webster
  2. grappling hook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grappling hook: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grappling hook: Vocabulary.com
  5. grappling-hook: Wordnik
  6. grappling hook: Wiktionary
  7. grappling hook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. grappling hook: Dictionary.com
  9. Grappling Hook (video game), Grappling hook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. grappling hook: Rhymezone
  11. grappling hook: FreeDictionary.org
  12. grappling hook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. grappling hook: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grappling hook: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grappling hook: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Grappling Hook: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See grappling_hooks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grappling hook)

noun:  A type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target (e.g. rigging of an enemy ship) for the purpose of catching hold of it.

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