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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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
"Then come, oh Spirit, from behind "The curtains of thy radiant home, "If thou wouldst be as angel shrined, "Or loved and claspt as mortal, come!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
At last I hooked my ankle in a vine, That claspt the feet of a Mnemosyne, And falling on my face was caught and known.
From The Princess by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
She even claspt my hand in her's, and said, "O Charles! is he very, very miserable?"
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bow me durst I not——————-Bever'd I and shook when that baron claspt me . . . . . . . . . —————- but dar'd I not to bow me earthward .
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
