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Claw   /klɔ/   Listen
Claw

noun
1.
Sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles.
2.
A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.  Synonym: hook.
3.
A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.  Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer.
4.
A bird's foot.
verb
(past & past part. clawed; pres. part. clawing)
1.
Move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging.
2.
Clutch as if in panic.
3.
Scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails.
4.
Attack as if with claws.



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"Claw" Quotes from Famous Books



... sundry is considered to be almost a snub, so the habit of wearing long finger-nails in China has descended through every rank of Society until it is now more often the badge of envious imitation than of any scholarly attainments. So precious to the owners are these claw-like nails that I have often seen them protected by silver sheaths, and have heard that for cases of extraordinary growth the whole of the left hand is even ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready
... it was a mere tent of skins and curious pictography, under the shadows of gigantic trees, looking down on the glistening waters of the Columbia; inwardly, it was a museum of relics of the supposed era of the giant-killers, and of the deep regions of the tooth and claw; of Potlatches, masques and charms of medas and wabenoes; of curious pipes; of odd, curious feathers, and beautiful shells and feather-work and pearls. But, though all things here were rude and primitive, the old chief had a strong poetic sense, and the place and ...
— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth
... silver franc on the table beside the remnants of the broken bottle. The man seized the neck of the bottle in a black, claw-like hand and gave it a preparatory flourish. He was a cadaverous little man, incredibly dirty, with mustaches and beard of a moth-eaten tow-color, and a purple flush on his cheeks. His uniform ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... spectacle struck him motionless. His lantern made visible a struggling, heaving mass of rats, fighting tooth and claw, enormous ...
— Messengers of Evil - Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... touch, A tang of. . .well, it was not wholly ease, As back into your mind the man's look came. Stricken in years a little, such a brow {50} His eyes had to live under!—clear as flint On either side o' the formidable nose Curved, cut and colored like an eagle's claw. Had he to do with A.'s surprising fate? When altogether old B. disappeared, And young C. got his mistress,—was't our friend, His letter to the King, that did it all? What paid the bloodless man for so much pains? Our Lord the King has favorites manifold, And shifts ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson


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