hasp
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After an hour searching dusty corridors, I found a door with a smart padlock and the remains of a hasp lying on the floor beside it.
From Nature ● May 19, 2020
And then Matt hears the sound of the window hasp being turned and the sound of the window opening.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
But now, Sokolove said for the first time publicly that he remembered that the hasp lock to the shed door was in the secure, closed position.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2015
The garage door wasn’t locked; Gibson had the padlock on the door, but not through the hasp.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2014
Instead of a doorknob, it has a large metal hasp with a hefty padlock.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.'
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ministry of Bubbleblowing denied yesterday, with an oath, that the 15,000,000 missing hasps had been found in a field near Asminster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other Germans were securing the hasps on the car doors with wire and spikes and other trackside trash.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Poirot undid the hasps and lifted the lid.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Half-way down the length of the train he found what he was looking for: a box car with its side-door hasped but not locked.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
"Lizzie is out," Lady O'Gara said, glancing at the door hasped and padlocked.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
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.
The door was hasped and fastened with a stick; precaution enough in such a place, and for all that it contained, too.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever
The Keeper of the Sky has hasped his Doors, Forgetting Zal's accumulative Roars, And drunk with Night's Elixir, prone he lies In Warp of dreamless Sleep - and Woof of Snores.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Bacon heard the rusty bolt shoot into its socket, and then the hasping and locking of the outside door, with a sensation of utter hopelessness.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
Presently, hasping these things firmly in, she went to the door, and opened it a cautious crack.
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris
These were her thoughts as she went about the house, hasping windows and bolting doors, with a dreary sense of the futility of caution.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
