[uh-graf] 
| 1. | a small cramp iron. |
| 2. | a clasp, often richly ornamented, for clothing or armor. |
| 3. | a device, as a hook, for preventing vibration in the section of a piano string between the pin and the bridge. |
| 4. | (in classical architecture) a sculptural relief on the face of a keystone. |
| a·graffe also a·grafe (ə-grāf') n.
[French agrafe, from agrafer, to hook onto : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + grafer, to hook (from grafe, hook, from Old High German krāpfo).] |
