claw
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Is claw a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of claw?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.colloquial
2. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.Examples: "a narrow base, as the petals of a Rose, where the claw is very short"
3. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
4. (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
verb (English)
1. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
2. (transitive, obsolete)Examples: "I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour."; "To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despiſe."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete)Examples: "In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation."obsoletetransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete)Examples: "Do'n't you remember, Sirrah, ſayes one, hovv vve clavv'd it avvay at ſuch a Place! Yes, ye Damn'd Rogue you, cryes t'other, vvhen you vvere ſo drunk you took your Aunt for the Bavvd."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary