grappler

English

Etymology

grapple +‎ -er

Noun

grappler (plural grapplers)

  1. One who grapples.
    • 1912, Harold Bindloss, Vane of the Timberlands, page 19:
      They were cheerful optimists; indomitable grapplers with forest and flood, who did almost incredible things with ax and saw and giant-powder.
  2. A wrestler; one who fights by wrestling.
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