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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
clasp .
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Examples
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Lord M. looked horribly glum; his fingers claspt, and turning round and round, under and over, his but just disgouted thumb; his sallow face, and goggling eyes, on his two kinswomen, by turns; but not once deigning to look upon me.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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As blooms the thorn claspt by the bright woodbine:
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning
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He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.
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Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the instep with flowers of golde.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Grasped his huge hammer, claspt his belt of steel,
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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As shoo tottered, he happened to luk saw summat claspt in her hand.
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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In one hand he carried a port-folio, and his other paw claspt a bunch of small brushes.
Artemus Ward 1865
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But he turn'd and claspt me in his arms, and answer'd, ` No, love, no; '
Enoch Arden & c. 1863
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We have claspt your cause, believing that our brother
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Here _Rose_ wept passionatelie, and claspt her Arms about me; but, when
Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843
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