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Clasp

noun

A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.

The act of grasping. Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold. "He has a strong grip for an old man" , "She kept a firm hold on the railing"

verb

(past & past part. clasped; pres. part. clasping)

Hold firmly and tightly.

Fasten with or as if with a brooch. Synonym: brooch.

Fasten with a buckle or buckles. Synonym: buckle.

Grasp firmly.

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"Clasp" Quotes from Famous Books

... measures the most opposite, and to serve interests the most contradictory. He was one day the minister of usurpation, and the next the minister of legitimacy! How can I express what I felt when Fouche took the oath of fidelity to Louis XVIII. when I saw the King clasp in his hands the hands of Fouche! I was standing near M. de Chateaubriand, whose feelings must have been similar to mine, to judge from a passage in his admirable work, 'La Monarchie selon la Charte'. "About nine in the evening," ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... me, the point found resistance, by the saving intervention of my half-crown! The clasp gave way with the violence of the blow, and shutting made a deep ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... always goes through the gentle ceremony with each person in turn. I do not know whether this was introduced by the Spaniards or comes down from prehistoric times. In any event, this handshaking in no way resembles the hearty clasp familiar to undergraduates at the beginning of the college year. As a matter of fact the Quichua handshake is extremely fishy and lacks cordiality. In testing the hand grip of the Quichuas by a dynamometer our surgeons found that the muscles of the forearm were poorly developed ...

— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham

... pointed down the steep to a small garden patch near by—mere pot of rifled loam, half rounded in by sheltering rocks—where, side by side, some feet apart, nipped and puny, two hop-vines climbed two poles, and, gaining their tip-ends, would have then joined over in an upward clasp, but the baffled shoots, groping awhile in empty air, trailed back ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... by her side, she heard his words and her own replies, she saw his blue eyes looking so intently at her; and then awaking to the present she saw another pair of blue eyes looking at her, speaking so much more fervently than the others and she felt the clasp of a strong hand on her own and then raising her head she looked at Lawrence and ...

— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford

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