claw

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /klɔː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
  2. A foot equipped with such.
  3. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
  4. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
  5. A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip. colloquial
  6. A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
    — a narrow base, as the petals of a Rose, where the claw is very short
  7. The act of catching a ball overhand.
  8. A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
动词 v.
  1. To scratch or to tear at.
    — Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
  2. To use the claws to seize, to grip.
  3. To use the claws to climb.
  4. To perform a claw catch.
  5. To move with one's fingertips.
    — De Gea was United's hero again within seconds of Hernandez's equaliser, diving to his left to claw away Dirk Kuyt's shot as he got on the end of a superb cross from Stewart Downing.
  6. To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on. obsolete,transitive
    — 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.
  7. To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something). obsolete,transitive
    — 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.
  8. To do (something) quickly. obsolete,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

claws plural claws present,singular,third-person clawing participle,present clawed participle,past clawed past

词汇关系

衍生词
bear claw beclaw cat-claw catclaw cat's claw clawbed claw clip claw crane clawer clawfoot clawfooted claw frog clawful claw hammer claw-hammer coat clawhand clawless clawlike claw machine claw ring claw sickness clawsome claw toe claw tool clawy crab claw declaw Devil's claw dew claw foreclaw get one's claws into hind claw lobster claw longclaw Ravenclaw red in tooth and claw tack claw tiger's claw toilet claw tooth and claw wolf's-claw claw away claw back claw off claw me, claw thee

词源

词源 1
From Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu, from Proto-Germanic *klawō. Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish klo.
词源 2
From Middle English clawen, from a combination of Old English clawan/clāwan (a remodelling of *clīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *klauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *klawjaną) and Old English clawian (from Proto-West Germanic *klawēn).
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