hasp

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Charles watched him groping for the hasp, and, when he had got the gate open, feel about for the pail of water, which when he found he struck against the gate-post as he carried it through.

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  1. noun A metal fastener with a hinged slotted part that fits over a staple and is secured by a pin, bolt, or padlock.
  2. transitive verb To close or lock with such a fastener.

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  • The man had discovered the bolt out of the hasp, was replacing it. —  141 - Satan Black
  • The lock was rusted tight, but the hasp was loose. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • And before Kemper or LeSeur could object, he swung it away, opened the hasp, and raised the lid. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • The hasp was more difficult, it really needed a lever but there was none to hand. —  Tied Up in Tinsel - Marsh, Ngaio - Allyn 27
  • "Third door," he said Doc ran to the designated panel, wrenched at the heavy hasp which secured it, got it open--and Rapid Pace came stumbling out. —  020 - Death In Silver
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hæsp, hæpse.

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  1. Also dial. (Scots) hesp, and transposed haps; from Middle English haspe, from Anglo-Saxon hæpse (transposed from hæspe), a hasp, bolt, or bar for a door, = Old High German haspa, a reel of yarn, Middle High German haspe, hespe, a hasp, a reel, German haspe, häspe, a hasp, clamp, hinge, = Icelandic hespa, a hasp, a wisp or skein of wool, = Swedish haspa, a hasp. = Danish haspe, a hasp, reel; cf. diminutive D. haspel, reel, winder, windle, = Middle Low German haspel, haspe, a spindle, = Old High German haspil, Middle High German haspel, German haspel, the hook on which a hinge turns, a staple, a reel, windlass. Cf. Italian aspo, Old French asple, a reel, winder, of German origin. Root unknown; it is not quite certain that the two senses ‘clasp’ and ‘reel’ are from the same source.
  2. from Middle English haspen, from Anglo-Saxon hæpsian (transposed from hæspian) (= Middle Low German haspen = Danish haspe, reel, wind; cf. Dutch haspelen = Middle Low German haspeln = Middle High German haspeln, German haspeln = Swedish haspla, reel, wind, hasp, fasten with a bolt); from the noun: see hasp, n.
 

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