clasp
noun
a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing.
claspt
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past participleof clasp.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof clasp.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
claspnouna device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing.
Example Sentences
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He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the instep with flowers of golde.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
The child lifted up and claspt its little beseeching hands, and stroakt the pale neck and cheeks of the marble beauty.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
She knew me, and acknowledged me her heir, Pray'd me to pay her debts, and keep the Faith: Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
She knew me, and acknowledg'd me her heir, Pray'd me to keep her debts, and keep the Faith; Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
