claw : Idioms & Phrases

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african clawed frog

  • noun a tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals
    Xenopus laevis.
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bear claw

  • noun almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw
    bear paw.
  • noun an incised design resembling the claw of a bear; used in Native American pottery
  • noun claw of a bear; often used in jewelry
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cat's-claw

  • noun erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida
    black bead; Pithecellodium unguis-cati; catclaw.
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Claw hammer

  • noun a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails
    carpenter's hammer; clawhammer.
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  • a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc.
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Claw hammer coat

  • a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. Slang
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claw hatchet

  • noun a hatchet that has a cleft for pulling nails
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Claw me, claw thee

  • stand by me and I will stand by you; an old proverb. Tyndale.
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Claw sickness

  • foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.
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claw-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped like a claw
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common devil's claw

  • noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
    common unicorn plant; ram's horn; Proboscidea louisianica; elephant-tusk; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
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devil's claw

  • noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
    common unicorn plant; ram's horn; Proboscidea louisianica; elephant-tusk; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
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long-clawed prawn

  • noun large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers
    river prawn; Palaemon australis.
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Pectinate claw

  • (Zoöl.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.
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sand devil's claw

  • noun alternatively placed in genus Martynia
    Martynia arenaria; Proboscidea arenaria.
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To claw (one) on the back

  • to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer.
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To claw (one) on the gall

  • to find falt with; to vex. Obs. Chaucer.
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To claw away

  • to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange.
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To claw off

  • (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.
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wolf's-claw

Wolf's"-claw` noun
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  1. (Bot.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
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