clasp
noun
a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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My lord, We have claspt your cause, believing that our brother Had wrong'd you; but this day he proffer'd peace.
From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron