Definitions for claw

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Spelling: [klaw]

IPA: /klɔ/

Claw is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in claw (aclw).

Definitions for claw

noun

1. a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
2. a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect.
3. the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain arthropods:
4. any part or thing resembling a claw, as the cleft end of the head of a hammer.
5. Typography. the hooklike projection from the right side of an r or from the bowl of a g.
6. (in a motion-picture mechanism) a device having one or two teeth that hook into the perforations of a length of film and move it one frame at a time at any given speed.
7. Jewelry. one of a group of slender, tapering metal projections rising from the base of a jewelry setting, used to hold a transparent or faceted gemstone in position. Compare prong (def 4).

verb (used with object)

1. to tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws:
2. to make by or as if by scratching, digging, etc., with hands or claws:
3. to proceed by or as if by using the hands:

verb (used without object)

1. to scratch, tear, or dig with or as if with claws:
2. to make fumbling motions:
3. Scot. to scratch gently, as to relieve itching.

Origin of claw

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English clawu; cognate with Old High German chlō(a), akin to Dutch klauw, German Klaue; (v.) Middle English clawen, Old English claw(i)an, derivative of

Examples for claw

He would fight them tooth and claw, and yet Lionel should not suffer.

He could hit, and he could hit hard, but he did not care to claw and scratch and bite!

Yes, the agency did try to claw back some of the money it gave out after Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, reports Michael Moynihan.

The two have been battling tooth and claw in the Sunshine State this week.

The dragon, now dangling by a claw from the edge of the sand tray, is on the cusp of defeat.

The bird was standing upon one leg, and in the other claw held a stone.

Admitting to an even bigger trading loss, CEO Jamie Dimon apologized for rogue managers, pledging to claw back compensation.

Unlike any animals he had ever encountered, they did not bite nor claw.

My sisters Rosa and Liz called it “the claw,” lovingly at times, and at other times I was not so sure.

We have brains, and with our brains we must do in a scientific way what Nature does with tooth and claw.