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Anklet fastener
Answer for the clue "Anklet fastener ", 5 letters:
clasp
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Word definitions for clasp in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clasp \Clasp\ (kl[.a]sp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clasped (kl[.a]spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clasping ] [OE. claspen, clapsen, prob. akin to E. clap.] To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp). ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, claspe , "metal catch or hook used to hold things together," perhaps a metathesis of clapse , and thus from or related to Old English clyppan "clasp" (see clip (v.2)).
Usage examples of clasp.
Hands clasped behind his back, Abram walked to his desk and stood behind it.
Her companions were threaded along the trunk behind her, moving easily: the widow Philas apparently indifferent to her surroundings, Farr with his eyecups wide and staring, his mouth wide open and his chest straining at the thin Air, and dear old Adda at the back, his spear clasped before him, his good eye constantly sweeping the complex darkness around them.
Nom Anor paced forward, hands clasped to each other within the voluminous sleeves of a floor-length robeskin so black it gleamed.
The antistatic wire still hung from his wrist but its crocodile clip no longer clasped anything.
He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.
Again he enclosed both in his arms, reaching around their backs to clasp a breast of each.
The Reverend stood on the stoop, gray Borsalino hat clasped in hand, a nervous and apologetic look on his round face.
I run through the bresh, guided by the maddened howls which riz horribly on the air, and busting through some bushes I seen Uncle Jeppard rolling on the ground with both hands clasped to the rear bosom of his buckskin britches which was smoking freely.
As the balloon surged forward again, Tolland rammed his thumb into the carabiner latch and twisted the hook, trying to release the clasp.
From this Friar the pious Carthusian had heard of the many strange occurrences which had lately taken place at the castle, and waited anxiously till he could clasp his dear friend, the unfortunate Della Croisse, to his breast without a breach of propriety.
When they walked in on him, Hazelwood had adopted a typical Churchillian posture, gazing across the river at the Houses of Parliament, hands clasped behind him, a Burma cheroot in one corner of his mouth.
From left to right it featured a series of vises and clamps to give him the gripping or clasping ability now denied to him through the loss of his left arm and hand.
She slid from the desk and clasped the minihedron inside a corycium heart that dangled from her charm bracelet.
Their victim wore a cotehardie in a rich russet color, trimmed in fur with a jeweled clasp at the throat.
He closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, then began a prayer in the High Naren tongue, begging God to save Crinion and grant Alazrian his arcane strength.