CLAW

I. noun Usage: often attributive see: clew Date: before 12th century a sharp usually slender and curved nail on the toe of an animal, any of various sharp curved processes especially at the end of a limb (as of an insect), one of the pincerlike organs terminating some limbs of various arthropods (as a lobster or scorpion), something that resembles a ~, ~ed adjective ~like adjective II. verb Date: before 12th century transitive verb to rake, seize, dig, or progress with or as if with ~s, intransitive verb to scrape, scratch, dig, or pull with or as if with ~s