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claw
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl??/
- (US) IPA(key): /kl?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /kl?/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu, from Proto-Germanic *klaw?. Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish klo, Norwegian klo, and Swedish klo.
Noun
claw (plural claws)
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A foot equipped with such.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
Derived terms
- claw hammer
- declaw
- get one's claws into
- tiger's claw
Translations
Further reading
- claw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English clawen, from Old English clawan, cl?wan, *cl?n, clawian, from Proto-Germanic *klawjan?.
Verb
claw (third-person singular simple present claws, present participle clawing, simple past and past participle clawed)
- To scratch or to tear at.
- Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To use the claws to climb.
- (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
- (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.
- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3
- I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.
- 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)
- Rich men they claw, sooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despise
- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3
- (obsolete) To rail at; to scold.
- In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.
- (figuratively, transitive, dated) To flatter; to fawn on (a person).
Translations
Derived terms
- claw me, claw thee
Anagrams
- cawl
Middle English
Noun
claw
- Alternative form of clawe
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hammerhead
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
hammer +? head
Pronunciation
Noun
hammerhead (plural hammerheads)
- The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
- (zoology) Any of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
- (zoology) A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
- (zoology) An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
- (slang) A stupid person, a dunce.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
- (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
Synonyms
- (shark): hammerhead shark, hammer fish, balance fish
Translations
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