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

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

And upon it, just a few inches from the stem, a hasp glittered like a diamond.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

Poirot undid the hasps and lifted the lid.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

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

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

I hasped the window; I combed his long, black hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes--to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, lifelike exultation, before any one else beheld it.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

I looked round, mistress, and found he was quite alone, and that the companion-head was hasped down.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller

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

Many dusty years have passed since the appropriation of this Davy Jones’s locker to any purpose, and during the whole period within the memory of living man, it has been hasped and padlocked. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

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

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