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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hasp.

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Examples

  • The hard helmet, hasped with gold, will be stripped of its hoops; and the helmet-shiner who should polish the metal of the war-mask sleeps;

    Archive 2006-07-16 Miss Snark 2006

  • The fifth five that was used, as I find, by this knight was free-giving and friendliness first before all, and chastity and chivalry ever changeless and straight, and piety surpassing all points: these perfect five were hasped upon him harder than on any man else.

    The Pentangel Depaynt of Pure Golde Hwes 2005

  • I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation before any one else beheld it.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • It was hasped for a lock, but there was none; the lid rose easily on oiled brass hinges, and a whiff of camphor floated out, vaporous as a jinn.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Now she rose from her chair and went to one of the windows, and, pushing back the sash curtain, pulled the wooden shutter across and hasped it.

    In Dark New England Days 1996

  • If thou speakest improper things in the hearing of this virtuous young virgin, consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee: To speak indiscreetly what we are obliged to hear, by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle, is in some degree assaulting on the high road. '

    The Coverley Papers Various

  • And when we had been served with our simple viands, she sat composedly before us with her hands in her lap, and her eyes turned on us with an appearance of sedate scrutiny no whit the less perplexing because we knew her orbs were but fair clean window-panes shuttered and hasped within.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • The doors were locked, but the kitchen window was not hasped, and through it she climbed.

    Moor Fires 1914

  • He scribbled on the back of this bill, gave it to Edred, and then they all went out on the roof and shovelled snow in on to Mr. Parados, and when he came out on the roof very soon and angry, they slipped round the chimney-stacks and through the trapdoor, and left him up on the roof in the snow, and shut the trapdoor and hasped it.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • As she did so, she made sure that her window was hasped wide.

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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