Crossword clues for clasp
clasp
- Choker hardware
- Chain attachment
- Purse component
- Necklace holder
- Locket feature
- It's gripping
- Choker part
- Brooch feature
- Brooch fastener
- Tie securer
- Manila envelope part
- Manila envelope fastener
- Jewellery part
- Firm grip
- Envelope attachment
- Broach part
- Bracelet securer
- Anklet fastener
- Ankle bracelet device
- Trombone on a brooch, e.g
- Tie grip
- Purse closer
- Pin attachment
- Part of some envelopes
- Necklace hook
- Necklace device
- Necklace connection
- Necklace closer
- Necklace clip
- Metallic locker
- Metallic envelope closer
- Metal part of an envelope
- Metal on an envelope
- Metal fastener on a manila envelope
- Lunchbox closure
- Locker made of metal
- Less visible part of a necklace
- Large envelope feature
- Join together, as hands
- Hold firmly and tightly
- Handbag feature
- Folder closer
- Fastener on a necklace
- Fastener on a manila envelope
- Envelope's metal fastener
- Common type of fastener
- Choker securer
- Bolo tie feature
- Big envelope securer
- Barrette, basically
- Bag fastener
- Purse fastener
- Necklace fastener
- Necklace securer
- Envelope feature, perhaps
- Handshake
- Join, as hands
- Purse part
- Envelope closer
- Hug
- Manila envelope feature
- Brooch part
- Catch
- Manila envelope closer
- Hold tightly
- Choker component
- Hook's place
- Necklace feature
- Grip tightly
- A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together
- The act of grasping
- Embrace (5)
- Fastener of a sort
- Necklace part
- Denture arm
- Agraffe
- Bear hug
- Tie holder
- Foulard fastener
- Necklace fastening
- Fastening device
- Part of a bracelet
- Buckle
- Take hold of
- Piece of jewelry
- Kind of knife or lock
- Grasp; fastener
- Grasp tightly
- Bar on a medal ribbon
- Envelope part
- Hold on to
- Hold tight
- Tight embrace
- Bracelet fastener
- Hold on tight
- Handbag part
- Jewelry fastener
- Envelope fastener
- Certain fastener
- Part of a necklace
- PIN part
- Get a grip on
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clasp \Clasp\, n.
An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
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A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle.
Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.
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).
To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
To surround and cling to; to entwine about. ``Clasping ivy.''
--Milton.
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)).
late 14c., from clasp (n.). Related: Clasped; clasping.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fastener or holder#Noun, particularly one that clasps. 2 (context in the singular English) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly. 2 To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.
WordNet
n. a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together
the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing" [syn: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold]
v. hold firmly and tightly [ant: unclasp]
fasten with or as if with a brooch [syn: brooch]
fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle] [ant: unbuckle]
grasp firmly; "The child clasped my hands" [ant: unclasp]
Wikipedia
Clasp, clasper or CLASP may refer to:
- Medal bar, an element in military decoration
- Fastener, a hardware device that mechanically joins objects together
- "Clasp", a track from Jethro Tull's album The Broadsword and the Beast
- Clasper, an anatomical structure in male cartilaginous fish
- Clasper (mathematics), a surface (with extra structure) in a 3-manifold on which surgery can be performed
- Grasp, holding or seizing firmly with (or as if with) the hand
The CLASP ( Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme) system was a scheme developed in the 1950s by English local authorities to devise a method of designing and assembling prefabricated buildings for use in the public sector. The former Southern Region of British Rail, the state-owned railway operator, adopted the system in the 1960s and 1970s and used it for signalboxes and station buildings. The Western Region also rebuilt some stations using the same methods.
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.