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
That padlock would have been attached to a hasp lock that connected the shed’s double doors from the outside.
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
But Aragon is a little lock-crazy: He has screwed a tiny hasp onto his plastic lunch box and hangs a combination lock there, because of the sodas he’s lost to pilfering officers, he says.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
Tyrion counted six oaken chests with iron hasps.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
As she did so, she made sure that her window was hasped wide.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation before any one else beheld it.
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
She saw that the door was of mighty thickness, and, moreover, hasped with iron and studded with great iron nails, so that some rattling blows that were rained upon it presently had no effect.
From The Green Door by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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
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
So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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
