HASP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hasp mean? 

• HASP (noun)
  The noun HASP has 1 sense:

1. a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock

  Familiarity information: HASP used as a noun is very rare.

• HASP (verb)
  The verb HASP has 1 sense:

1. secure or lock with a hasp

  Familiarity information: HASP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hasp" is a kind of...):

catch (a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window)

Derivation:

hasp (secure or lock with a hasp)

• HASP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hasp    ... he / she / it hasps   
Past simple: hasped   
Past participle: hasped   
-ing form: hasping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secure or lock with a hasp

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "hasp" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hasp (a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock)

 Context examples 

Her fearful curiosity was every moment growing greater; and seizing, with trembling hands, the hasp of the lock, she resolved at all hazards to satisfy herself at least as to its contents.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then when you hear him retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want into the room which you used to occupy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)