The act or process of grappling; a struggle or wrestling engagement.
From 'grapple' + '-ment' suffix (denoting an action or result). This formal noun form developed in English to describe the noun-form of grappling activities.
This is an archaic or formal term that survives mainly in historical texts about wrestling or hand-to-hand combat, representing older English's tendency to create specific nouns for actions.
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