Clasp

1. n. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
2. v. t. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
3. v. t. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
4. v. t. To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
5. n. An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.