brooch

fasten with or as if with a brooch

engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)

v hold firmly and tightly v fasten with or as if with a brooch v fasten with a buckle or buckles v grasp firmly

n a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together n the act of grasping v hold firmly and tightly v fasten with or as if with a brooch v fasten with a buckle or buckles v grasp firmly

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod