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an object or tool for picking things up that looks something like the claws of an animal, bird, or insect: An iron claw lifts metal scraps from one pile to another. It was one of those old-fashioned arcade games where you pick up prizes with a mechanical claw. The machine's giant claw ripped the roof off the house like it was paper.
1. : a sharp usually slender and curved nail on the toe of an animal. 2. : any of various sharp curved processes especially at the end of a limb (as of an insect) also : a limb ending in such a process. 3. : one of the pincerlike organs terminating some limbs of various arthropods (such as a lobster or scorpion) 4.
A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or tarsus for gripping a surface as they walk.
In zoology, a claw is a narrow, arched structure that curves downward from the end of a digit in birds, reptiles, many mammals, and some amphibians. It is a hardened (keratinized) modification of the epidermis.
CLAW definition: 1. one of the sharp, curved nails on the feet of some animals and birds 2. If a person or animal…. Learn more.
noun. a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect. the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain arthropods: lobster claws. any part or thing resembling a claw, as the cleft end of the head of a hammer.
person If you claw your way somewhere, you move there with great difficulty, trying desperately to find things to hold on to. They managed to claw their way up iron ladders to the safety of the upper deck.
involving opposition or competition that is violent and without sympathy. nature, red in tooth and claw. See claw in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: claw. Definition of claw noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect. the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain arthropods: lobster claws. any part or thing resembling a claw, as the cleft end of the head of a hammer.
Claw definition: Something, such as the cleft end of a hammerhead, that resembles a claw.
