Both Uses of
grapple
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the…†
Chpt 15
- He rubs grimly his grappling hands, knobbed with knuckledusters.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(grapple) to struggle:
typically a mental struggle -- as in coming to terms with something
more rarely a physical struggle -- as in hand-to-hand combat or moving something heavy or awkward