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clawful

noun

Etymology

From claw + -ful.

  1. inherited from *klawēn✻
  2. inherited from clawian
  3. inherited from *klawjaną✻
  4. inherited from *klauwjan✻
  5. inherited from clawan
  6. inherited from clawen
  7. suffixed as clawful — “claw + ful”

Definitions

  1. As much as is held in one's claws or (expressively) in one's hand.

    • [The owls] made sly grips at my breast feathers, and carried off whole clawsful […]
    • But our little savage had thrown himself flat on his back with his talons up, and when the rooster charged upon him he struck them into the old fellow's breast, taking out two big clawfuls of feathers.
    • He seized a clawful of rubble and hurled it up the shaft.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA