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What does claw mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word claw? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A foot equipped with such.
  2. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
  3. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
  4. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
  5. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
Verb
  1. To scratch or to tear at.
  2. To use the claws to seize, to grip.
  3. To use the claws to climb.
  4. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
  5. To move with one's fingertips.
  6. (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.
  7. (obsolete) To rail at; to scold.
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