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Paw   /pɔ/   Listen
noun
Paw  n.  
1.
The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
2.
The hand. (Jocose)
Paw clam (Zool.), the tridacna; so called because shaped like an animal's paw.


verb
Paw  v. t.  (past & past part. pawed; pres. part. pawing)  
1.
To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
2.
To scrape or beat with the forefoot. "His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane."


Paw  v. i.  To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Paw" Quotes from Famous Books



... his paw down into the contents of the cooler, but although the surface of the liquor was cool, the lower part was still scalding hot, and he had not put his paw in for a moment, when he withdrew it with a loud roar, rearing up ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... anxious looks, Triss came up, growling and showing his teeth. Frank explained that it was only his manner. Frank took the paw that was extended to him, but Triss's friendliness seemed somewhat dubious, for he still further uncovered his ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... resumed. "When she sights a victim she flattens herself out on the ground and gives her long, quavering squall. If the victim remains stationary she crawls toward it very slowly, almost imperceptibly, moving one paw only at a time. If it runs about she ceases her advance and pivots around until it is again stationary and she facing it. She keeps that up until she is within springing distance. But if she sees it near a gate or a door and apparently trying to escape through that, she ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... the day when the constable took it into his head to play thoughtlessly with knives, his good wife utilised so well the two deaths he had caused and threw them so often in his face, that she made him as soft as a cat's paw and put him in the straight road of marriage; and he proclaimed her a modest and virtuous constable's lady, as indeed she was. As this book should, according to the maxims of great ancient authors, join certain useful things to the good laughs which you will find therein and contain precepts ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac
... right moment, I gathered myself up, and with a great spring I cleared the distance and landed clean on the back of the leader. That was a surprise for him, I can tell you. He went down as if he had been shot, and the others, with snorts of terror, flew away like the wind. One stroke of my paw killed him, and then I stood up over his striped and quivering body and roared as loud as I could for my wife and little ones. They weren't far off, and they came as fast as they could; and to see those little beggars dancing about that zebra was a sight, ...
— The Children's Book of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton


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