Grapple, grapple.
Doesn't that word look weird? Doesn't it sound weird? I hate when I decide to use a word as I'm writing something and as soon as I write the word down it starts to look weird to me. I just used grapple and the more I thought about it, the more I thought that I probably had made up the word myself and no one else would even know what it meant. Because really, it just doesn't exist in the English language. So, I went to my trusty dictionary (had to stop and check to see if I was spelling dictionary correctly since that word also started to look a little weird to me). I looked up grapple. I have to note here that I just went back to the dictionary right now to look up grapple again because I lost my spot and I've discovered that "grapple" has moved. I swear it used to be halfway down on a righthand page, but now it is on a lefthand page only a third of the way down!
Anyway...believe it or not there are two listings for grapple. One is that it is an instrument with iron claws used to fasten an enemy ship alongside before boarding. It even has a picture. Also, listed here is that it is a hand to hand struggle and also that it is a bucket similar to a clamshell. Next it is separately listed with the definition that I was using - "to come to grips with".
Now, you would think with all those different usages that I would not be weirded out by seeing it in print! Surely, I must have seen it many different times!
Is "usages" really a word? Its looking a little weird to me! Oh no, here we go again!
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
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