What is another word for clasps?

Pronunciation: [klˈasps] (IPA)

Clasps are an essential component of many items, including jewelry, bags, and clothing. The word "clasps" can be interchanged with many synonyms, including "fasteners," "hooks," "clips," "buckles," and "binder clips." Fasteners are typically used to secure two pieces of material together, while hooks are used to attach one item to another. Clips are used to grip something tightly, particularly papers. Buckles, on the other hand, are typically used to secure belts or straps. Finally, binder clips are small metal clasps used to hold stacks of paper together. Whatever your needs may be, there is likely a synonym for "clasps" that will suit your needs.

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Usage examples for Clasps

When the two curtains were fastened together with clasps, they gave a length of sixty feet.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Odalite received a "handy" edition of Shakespeare, in twelve small volumes, bound in white vellum and silver and inclosed in a white morocco case, with silver clasps, from her father; a small Bible, prayer book and hymn book, bound in white velvet, with silver clasps and inclosed in a hand case of white morocco, for church service, from her mother; a very handsome and completely fitted workbox, brought all the way from Canton, from Le.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Intangible and inarticulate the vision spins; and through it all he knows, he feels, that beneath his palm lies the cold white hand of the fairest of the sea-brood; he perceives dimly a motionless figure seated, and the hand not in his clasps her knee, and the eyes look away, and the hair drifts wide.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman

Famous quotes with Clasps

  • Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
  • The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck, like something with copious amounts of sex and blood. Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into the dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment. Perhaps, I thought, Christian spirituality really was the difference between illusion and magic.
    Don Miller (author)
  • The sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • [He clasps his hands together]
    Charlie Chaplin

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