hasp

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

He unhooked the hasp holding the sliding cabin top hatch in place and slid it forward.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

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

Tyrion counted six oaken chests with iron hasps.

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

Other Germans were securing the hasps on the car doors with wire and spikes and other trackside trash.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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 great padlock, however, on the former, with characteristic acuteness, was looked without being hasped, so that, in a few seconds, my old guide had undone all the fastenings, and we found ourselves under shelter.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever

In one of the attics stood a great hasped chest, wherein the dead woman's dresses were mouldering.

From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

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

He advanced to the iron door and lifted its hasped bar.

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman

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

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