subs. (common).The hand. Also GRAPPLER. For synonyms, see DADDLE and MAULEY.
1852. H. HAZEL, Yankee Jack, p. 9. Give us your GRAPPLER on that, old fellow!
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years Penal Servitude, iii. 246. Anything she once put her GRAPPLES on she slipped inside.