/euh graf"/ , n.
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.
Also, agrafe /euh graf"/ .
[ 1660-70; agrafe, n. deriv. of agrafer to hook, equiv. to a- A- 5 + grafe hook, cramp iron, prob. ]