1. clasp - Noun
2. clasp - Verb
To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
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.
A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. Franz Kafka
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. William Cullen Bryant
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. Cyril Tourneur
Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile. Gerald Massey
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul. George Bernard Shaw