What is "hasps"

Usage examples of "hasps".

The bolt was a length of sturdy, hewn post that ran through iron hasps on each side of the double grating.

The wood made a slight, shuffling sound as it moved through its hasps, and the unseen dwarf beside Derkin whispered, "Shhh!

He lifted the heavy bolt from its hasps, then banged on the plank gate.

Sharpe stooped to lift the hasps, felt the resistance in their ancient hinges, then glanced at Vivar as if to receive his blessing.

Its heavy plank door was locked with two hasps and staples, secured by two heavy padlocks.

When I had seen it before, it had been locked by two hasps and staples, secured by two heavy padlocks.

I heard the hasps cover the staples, one after the other, and then I heard the heavy padlocks snapped shut.

On the mess decks, steel lockers in their scores had broken adrift, been thrown in a dozen different directions, bursting hasps, and locks, spilling their contents everywhere.

In the Schloss Adler, Smith reflected, there would be neither pneumatic chisels nor oxy-acetylene equipment for there could be no conceivable call for either, but, even so, it didn't seem to matter: with all the best will in the world a couple of iron hasps couldn't for long withstand an attack of that nature.