paw : Idioms & Phrases

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bear paw

  • noun almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw
    bear claw.
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bear's-paw

Bear's"-paw` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
Webster 1913

bear's-paw fern

  • noun epiphytic fern with large fronds; Taiwan and Philippines
    Aglaomorpha meyeniana.
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cat's-paw

  • noun a person used by another to gain an end
    instrument; pawn.
  • noun a hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked
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Cat's"-paw` noun
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) (a) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air. (b) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.
  2. A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes. ✍ In this sense the term refers to the fable of the monkey using the cat's paw to draw the roasting chestnuts out of the fire.
Webster 1913

kangaroo paw

  • noun sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs; Australia
    kangaroo's-foot; kangaroo paw; Anigozanthus manglesii; kangaroo-foot plant; Australian sword lily.
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kangaroo's paw

  • noun sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs; Australia
    kangaroo's-foot; kangaroo paw; Anigozanthus manglesii; kangaroo-foot plant; Australian sword lily.
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Paw clam

  • (Zoöl.), the tridacna; so called because shaped like an animal's paw.
Webster 1913

pussy's-paw

  • noun pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America
    Spraguea umbellatum; pussy's-paw; Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy-paw.
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pussy-paw

  • noun pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America
    Spraguea umbellatum; pussy's-paw; Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy-paw.
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pussy-paws

  • noun pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America
    Spraguea umbellatum; pussy's-paw; Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy-paw.
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