Claw

1. n. A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
2. n. A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
3. n. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
4. n. Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.