Definitions for agraffes

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agraffes a·graffe

Spelling: [uh-graf]

IPA: /əˈgræf/

Agraffes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in agraffes (aaeffgrs).

Definitions for agraffes

noun

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.

Origin of agraffes

1660-70; French, variant of agrafe, noun derivative of agrafer to hook, equivalent to a- a-⁵ + grafe hook, cramp iron, probably Germanic; see Examples for agraffes

But he wrote certain poems, in which Stroom and Graith, and the agraffe appear.

What part the agraffe played in it (a medival beast I imagined) I could not know, could not guess.

He added that others such as Stroom, Graith, and agraffe appeared in his poems.