hasp
Valid in Scrabble
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- 9
- Words With Friends
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Definition of hasp
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
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noun
- A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
- A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”).
- An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
verb
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(transitive)To shut or fasten with a hasp, or as with a hasp.
“He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.”
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Etymology
From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with…
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From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
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