1460–5. Churchw. Acc. St. Andrew’s East Cheap, in Brit. Mag., XXXI. 396. Payd for clapsyng and glewing of the bokys.
1562. Phaër, Æneid, VIII. 192 (R.). Mens bodies dead he did deuise to ioyne to bodies quick … In wretched claspings vyle.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 542. The Iuie … that with clipping and clasping bindeth trees.
1608. Shaks., Per., I. i. 128. Your untimely claspings with your child.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, Poems I. 18. Their faces shine Betwixt the solemn claspings of their wings.
