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HASP
(Houston Automatic Spooling Program) A mainframe spooling program that provides task, job and data management functions.
hasp [hasp]
(design engineering)
A two-piece fastening device having a loop on one piece and a hinged plate that fits over the loop on the other.
HASP [hasp]
(computer science)
A technique used on some types of larger computers to control input and output between a computer and its peripheral devices by utilizing mass-storage devices to temporarily store data. Acronym for Houston Automatic Spooling Processor.
hasp
hasp
A fastening device consisting of a loop and a slotted hinge plate, normally secured with a padlock.
HASP - Houston Automatic Spooling Program
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When they were safe under the veranda, panting, laughing, grumbling, or congratulating themselves on having been so close to a place of shelter, Miss Wilson observed, with some uneasiness, a spade--new, like the hasp of the gate--sticking upright in a patch of ground that someone had evidently been digging lately.
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Yolland dived into this rubbish, and brought up an old japanned tin case, with a cover to it, and a hasp to hang it up by-- the sort of thing they use, on board ship, for keeping their maps and charts, and such-like, from the wet.
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Her fearful curiosity was every moment growing greater; and seizing, with trembling hands, the hasp of the lock, she resolved at all hazards to satisfy herself at least as to its contents.
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