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
The door was made of wire netting on a wooden frame, with two leather hinges nailed to the uprights and a hasp and staple fastened with a twist of wire.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
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
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 Young, E. H. (Emily Hilda)
He advanced to the iron door and lifted its hasped bar.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen
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 Lever, Charles James
It was a monkey, with whiskers and a calico jacket, who jumped out of a box when the cover was lifted; and then you crushed him down and hasped him in.
From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter
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
Presently, hasping these things firmly in, she went to the door, and opened it a cautious crack.
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
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 Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)
So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 Young, E. H. (Emily Hilda)
