clasp
/klæsp/ noun C1- A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder. · I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace!
- A bar or insignia on a medal ribbon, to either indicate an additional award of the medal, or the action or service for which it was awarded.
- An embrace, a grasp, or handshake. · He took her hand in a firm clasp.
Plural clasps
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Then there was the ring with the lion’s head, which Cæsar wore when he wanted to greet his friends with a clasp of the hand.
Edmond could only clasp his hands and exclaim, “Oh, my friend, my friend, speak not thus!” and then resuming all his presence of mind, which had for a moment staggered under this blow, and his strength, which had failed at the words of the old man, he said, “Oh, I have saved you once, and I will save you a second time!” And raising the foot of the bed, he drew out the phial, still a third filled with the red liquor.
No longer could Edmond look into those wide-open eyes which had seemed to be penetrating the mysteries of death; no longer could he clasp the hand which had done so much to make his existence blessed.
A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him.
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