clasping
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clasping
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clasping (countable and uncountable, plural claspings)
- The act by which something is clasped.
- 1892 October 14, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the story)”, in The Adventure of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], OCLC 4551407:
- Nothing had been said during our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous tension within him.