pawer

Variant of paw

paw definition

paw (pô)

noun

  1. the foot of a four-footed animal having claws
  2. Informal a hand

Etymology: ME paue < OFr poue < Frank *pauta, a paw (< pre-Celt *pauta) > Ger pfote

transitive verb, intransitive verb

  1. to touch, dig, hit, strike out (at), etc. with the paws or feet a horse pawing the air
    1. to handle clumsily or roughly she pawed angrily through the papers on her desk
    2. to caress in too familiar a way

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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