Claps vs Fasten - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between claps and fasten

is that claps is while fasten is .

(head)

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(en verb)

To attach or connect in a secure manner.

The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.

Fasten your seatbelts!

Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?

* Jonathan Swift

The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

to fasten a blow

* Shakespeare

if I can fasten but one cup upon him