pawer
Variant of paw
paw
definition
paw (pô)
noun
- the foot of a four-footed animal having claws
- Informal a hand
Etymology: ME paue < OFr poue < Frank *pauta, a paw (< pre-Celt *pauta) > Ger pfote
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to touch, dig, hit, strike out (at), etc. with the paws or feet a horse pawing the air
- to handle clumsily or roughly she pawed angrily through the papers on her desk
- to caress in too familiar a way
Related Forms:
- pawer paw′er noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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