Paw

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The foot of an animal, especially a quadruped, that has claws or nails.
  • n. Informal A human hand, especially a large clumsy one: "Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water” ( John Steinbeck).
  • v. To strike with the paw or paws.
  • v. To strike or scrape with a beating motion: The bull pawed the ground before charging.
  • v. To handle clumsily, rudely, or with too much familiarity. See Synonyms at touch.
  • verb-intransitive. To scrape the ground with the forefeet: The horse pawed restlessly.
  • verb-intransitive. To handle someone or something clumsily, rudely, or with too much familiarity: Don't paw at everything you see.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Father; pa.
  • n. The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
  • v. To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws
  • v. To gently push on something with a paw.
  • v. To touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way.
  • v. To clumsily dig through something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
  • n. The hand.
  • verb-intransitive. To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
  • v. To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
  • v. To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The hand or foot of an animal which has nails or claws: distinguished from hoof: as, a monkey's paw; the paws of a cat, dog, rat, etc. In many animals the fore feet, and in some the hind feet, are prehensile, and serviceable as hands.
  • n. The human hand, especially when large or coarse, or when awkwardly used.
  • To draw the fore foot along the ground; scrape with the fore foot.
  • To scrape with the fore foot; strike with a drawing or scraping action of the fore foot.
  • To handle roughly or clumsily, as with paws.Johnson.
  • To fawn upon, as a spaniel upon his master.
  • n. A trick.
  • To secure or stop the motion of (a capstan, windlass, or ratchet-wheel) with a pawl.
  • Improper; nasty; obscene.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. touch clumsily
  • n. the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • v. scrape with the paws
  • n. a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
  • Verb Form
    pawed    pawing    paws   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fondle    caress    grate    scrape    handle    touch   
    Cross Reference
    limb    claw    palpate   
    Form
    pawed    pawing    pawpaw    pawprint    catpaw   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baugh    Gaw    Haw    Law    Shaw    Straw    Waugh    aw    awe    bashaw   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    claw    fist    tail    jaw    snout    fang    forearm    finger    belly    limb