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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

If anyone had seen that the hasp lock was shut when the fire was put out, then that would prove that the boys had been locked in the shed, almost certainly by Graf.

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

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

Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.'

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Tyrion counted six oaken chests with iron hasps.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Judging from her personality, she appeared to have been reared on a diet of hardware: hasps and clasps and nails and old screws.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

From the center of the back of the box a square was cut out and a trap door fitted in and hasped down.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various

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

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

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

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

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

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

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