grappler

grappler

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English grapple
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English grappler

    From 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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