AGRAFFE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

2.
n.

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.


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