Grapnel [noun]

(←) n general term for fish net, grapnel dragged along the bottom.

They slept fairly and, at daybreak, got up the grapnel and hoisted the sail again.

Or, by the accidental use of a grapnel, they would chance to fish up some bottles of valuable "bay-oil" from the bottom.

I found landing impracticable and therefore came to a grapnel, in hopes of their coming to us, for we had passed several fires.

Our grapnel was foul but Providence here assisted us; the fluke broke and we got to our oars and pulled to sea.

It was already afloat, but riding quite safely to a rope and a little grapnel, which she proceeded to haul in.

Meantime, the grapnel-iron has been lowered, and dangling down at the end of a strong rope of a hundred and fifty feet long.

He dropped his grapnel, as soon as he found the Ark had drifted in a line that was directly to windward of the rock.

Before midnight we came to a grapnel off the float or Coopang and found here one ship, a ketch and two or three small craft.

So slow was the motion of the ship, that my grapnel held, and the entire body of the wreck began to yield to the pressure.