Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To loose from a hasp; let go.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
unfasten
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet, when I had bidden the guards unhasp the collar which held the prisoner's neck, and clapped my arms around her, showing all the roughness of one who has no mind that his captive shall escape or even unduly struggle, a thrill gushed through me so potent that I was like to have fainted, and it was only by supreme strain of will that I held unbrokenly on with the ceremonial.
The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905
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He was on horseback, and, stooping from his saddle, was endeavouring just now -- but very unhandily -- to unhasp the gate with the crook of his riding-whip.
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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By this time David had managed to unhasp the door.
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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But it annoyed me so much that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and I thought I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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