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Paw   /pɔ/   Listen
Paw

noun
1.
A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped.
2.
The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.  Synonyms: hand, manus, mitt.  "He extended his mitt"
verb
(past & past part. pawed; pres. part. pawing)
1.
Scrape with the paws.
2.
Touch clumsily.



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"Paw" Quotes from Famous Books



... girl joyfully took the bright coin, and dropped it into the monkey's outstretched paw, receiving from him a characteristic "thank you," ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... circular rim of each there is a fringe of minute thorns, hooked somewhat like those of the wild rose. In clinging to the hard polished pebbles, these were overlapped by a fleshy membrane, much in the manner that the cushions of a cat's paw overlap its claws when the animal is in a state of tranquillity; and by means of the projecting membrane, the hollow interior was rendered air-tight, and the vacuum completed: but in dealing with the hand—a soft substance—the thorns ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... unforeseen in the lines of intrenchment. The emergency admitted of no dallying. Cattle do not paw away obstacles as do horses and other animals to reach the grass, and relief must come in the form of human assistance. Even the horses were helpless, as the snow was too deep under the sleet, and any attempt to trample ...
— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams
... prognostication, and was about to explain what a poor show all the Boers in the Transvaal would make in front of a few British regiments, when he was astonished by a sudden change in his friend's manner. Dropping his enormous paw on to his shoulder, Coetzee broke into a burst of somewhat forced merriment, the cause of which, though John did not guess it at the moment, was that he had just perceived Frank Muller, who was in Wakkerstroom with a waggon-load of corn to grind at the ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
... 'I have other pains in store, to which what thou hast as yet suffered is but as the scratching of the lion's paw. It were better not to suffer them. They will leave no life in thee. Curse Christ—'tis but a ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware


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