“She discovered herself perched upon the claw of a dragon, winging above the purple Forbidden City.”
“But then Johnson saw the red claw and other characteristics of female crabs.”
“He began telling a story about one of those arcade machines with a mechanical claw that people use to try to pick up one out of dozens of boxes sitting in a Plexiglas tub.”
clawfoot
(medicine) A condition of the humanfoot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantarflexion.