claw

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claw[1,noun] claw[2,verb] bear claw claw back claw-foot claw hammer devil's claw red[1,adjective] tack claw

Main Entry: ¹claw
Pronunciation: 'klo
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu hoof, claw; akin to Old Norse klO claw, and probably to Old English cliewen ball -- more at CLEW
1 : a sharp usually slender and curved nail on the toe of an animal
2 : any of various sharp curved processes especially at the end of a limb (as of an insect); also : a limb ending in such a process
3 : one of the pincerlike organs terminating some limbs of various arthropods (as a lobster or scorpion)
4 : something that resembles a claw; specifically : the forked end of a tool (as a hammer)
- clawed /'klod/ adjective
- claw·like /-"lIk/ adjective