0 past simple and past participle of clasp --
1 to hold someone or something firmly in your hands or arms: --
They always remained frozen in the way he clasped them during meditation.
The fire mark is decorated with the symbol of the four clasped right hands.
When the doubters heard this, they became nervously deferential, paled, clasped their hands together, and backed away from their mats.
When a moth flies into the basket formed by the spider's legs, it is clasped and bitten, and later wrapped in araneid-like fashion.
Females will oviposit in vegetation such as water iris while clasped by males.
The mold each has two plates that are clasped tightly together and attached to long handles for manipulating over a charcoal stove.
Twenty putters were found lying clasped hand in hand, huddled together in that long last sleep of death.
Those two great monarchs clasped hands of friendship and of affection, and that might and ought to be the symbol and emblem of the whole of the two nations.
