Claw Definition

klô
clawed, clawing, claws
noun
claws
A sharp, hooked or curved horny structure, or nail, on the foot of a bird and of many reptiles and mammals.
Webster's New World
The pincers, or chela, of a lobster, crab, scorpion, etc., or on the limb of certain insects.
Webster's New World
One of one or more small curved structures at the tip of an appendage of an invertebrate, especially an insect or other arthropod.
American Heritage Medicine
A foot with such structures at its end.
Webster's New World
Anything resembling or regarded as a claw.
The claw of a hammer.
Webster's New World
verb
clawed, clawing, claws
To scratch, dig, tear, or pull with the claws or fingernails.
American Heritage
To scratch, clutch, pull, climb, dig, or tear with or as with claws.
Webster's New World
idiom
claw back
  • to recover (money paid out previously), as by means of a clawback provision
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Claw

Noun

Singular:
claw
Plural:
claws

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Claw

Origin of Claw

  • Middle English clawe from Old English clawu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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