Etymology From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
1
A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
2
A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
3
Alternative Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”).
4
An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
hasp
verb
Etymology From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).
1
To shut or fasten with a hasp, or as with a hasp.
He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 31: