hasp
noun
a clasp for a door, lid, etc., especially one passing over a staple and fastened by a pin or a padlock.
hasped
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past participleof hasp.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 hasp.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
haspnouna clasp for a door, lid, etc., especially one passing over a staple and fastened by a pin or a padlock.
Example Sentences
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The great padlock, however, on the former, with characteristic acuteness, was looked without being hasped, so that, in a few seconds, my old guide had undone all the fastenings, and we found ourselves under shelter.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
The doors were locked, but the kitchen window was not hasped, and through it she climbed.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
From the center of the back of the box a square was cut out and a trap door fitted in and hasped down.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various
The screened doors were shut and hasped, but the windows were all open.
From Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted by Harriet L.
Many dusty years have passed since the appropriation of this Davy Jones’s locker to any purpose, and during the whole period within the memory of living man, it has been hasped and padlocked.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
