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- verb Present participle of
hasp .
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Examples
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Presently, hasping these things firmly in, she went to the door, and opened it a cautious crack.
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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These were her thoughts as she went about the house, hasping windows and bolting doors, with a dreary sense of the futility of caution.
Moor Fires 1914
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So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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CHAPTER X. BACON heard the rusty bolt shoot into its socket, and then the hasping and locking of the outside door, with a sensation of utter hopelessness.
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"I was a-forced to go to Lower Mistover tonight," he said, "and Mr. Yeobright asked me to leave this here on my way; but, faith, I put it in the lining of my hat, and thought no more about it till I got back and was hasping my gate before going to bed.
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