Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A metal fastener with a hinged slotted part that fits over a staple and is secured by a pin, bolt, or padlock.
- v. To close or lock with such a fastener.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clasp; especially, a clasp that passes over a staple and is fastened by a pin or a padlock; also, a metal hook for fastening a door.
- n. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
- n. A thread, string, or skein.
- n. A quantity of yarn, the fourth part of a spindle.
- n. An instrument for cutting the surface of grass-land. In this sense also called a scarifier.
- To shut or fasten with a hasp.
- To clasp; inclose; fasten as if with a hasp.
Wiktionary
- n. A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
- v. To shut or fasten with a hasp.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.
- n. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
- n. An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.
- v. To shut or fasten with a hasp.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock
- v. secure or lock with a hasp
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English hæsp, hæpse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Iron bar, with part of the iron plate or hasp which is secured by the lock and keeps the bar in place: Hereford 177 78.”
“Iron bar, with part of the iron plate or hasp which is secured by the lock and keeps the bar in place: Hereford.]”
“I'll share one with you: Needing a piece of wood to fill the gap between a screen door and a spring hasp if you don't know what that is, I can't explain it to you, I dismantled a bookcase, removed the back, stacked the books on the floor, and cut off a teensy-tiny piece of fiberboard, solving that problem.”
“He picked up the stoutest of the screwdrivers he had brought with him, slid it into the hasp, and twisted.”
“Flange and hasp makers are the biggest customers for widgets, domestically and internationally.”
“The little green, wooden house has screened windows, a door with a hasp, and a hatch that lifts open to the nesting box where you collect eggs.”
“Reading up on chicken predation, I learned that a raccoon can use its tiny hands to open a hasp.”
““Is this the dream of language,” the poet asks, and then confronts the reader with the possibilities: “a trap with rusted hasp (suggests escape/but offers teeth)” The musical beauty of language is not forgotten either, and in another moment of the same poem, we are offered these lines:”
“He pulled out the leather tube, untied the top, flipped open the interior metal hasp, and opened it.”
“Michael grabbed the leather tube off the ground where he had left it and stuffed the rod back inside, turning the hasp and sealing it up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hasp’.
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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rodrigo's list
aspidistra, mosaic, murmur, sussuration, clap, assiduous, hasp, clench, rhythm, solemn, seldom, slash and 18 more...
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Spinning
This list is basically an excuse for me to list the word wool four times in a row.
wool, spin, spinning, cotton, scribble, scribbler, scribbling, spindle whorl, spindlewhorl, card, card-clothing, carding-machine and 68 more...
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Hooks
hook, Captain Hook, shook, grappling hook, meat hook, pruning hook, hooks, hook 'em horns, Hook 'em Horns, sky-hook, hook, line, and s..., hook, line and si... and 66 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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the road
glaucoma, tarpaulin, flowstone, flue, rimstone, alabaster, gully, shoring, grike, riprap, windfall, transom and 120 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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karnage's Words
furbelow, farinaceous, fendrake, rhizobium, imbricate, quaquaversal, exstasis, grapheme, scissiparity, apterous, obdurant, omphalos and 135 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hasp.
johnmperry Very old operating system element:
Houston
Automated
Spooling
Program
Interesting for its double acronym: "spool" is/was "simultaneous peripheral operation online".
Sep 8, 2008
rubah When my chem teacher made us write this as our 'word of the day', I did not believe it was real. Sep 8, 2008