Usually means: Sharp, curved appendage for grasping.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. claw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. claw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. claw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. claw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. claw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Claw, claw: Wordnik
  7. claw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Claw, Claw: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. claw: Wiktionary
  10. claw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. claw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. claw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. claw: Dictionary.com
  14. claw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. claw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Claw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. claw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. claw: Rhymezone
  20. claw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. claw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. CLAW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. claw: Free Dictionary
  24. claw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Claw, claw: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. claw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. claw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. claw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Claw: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. claw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLAW: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. claw: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLAW: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Claw: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Claw: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. claw, claw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. claw, the claw: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Claw: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Claw: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
noun:  A foot equipped with such.
noun:  The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
noun:  A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
noun:  (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
noun:  (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
noun:  (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
verb:  To scratch or to tear at.
verb:  To use the claws to seize, to grip.
verb:  To use the claws to climb.
verb:  (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
verb:  To move with one's fingertips.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete)
verb:  To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
verb:  To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
verb:  To do (something) quickly.
noun:  A surname from Navajo.

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