| 单词 | with its claws |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith its claws b. ‘The foot of a beast or bird, armed with sharp nails, or the pincers or holders of shell-fish’ (Johnson). This is only a loose use, arising out of such phrases as in its claws, with its claws, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > foot with claws clawOE clee1393 pawc1440 OE Phoenix 277 Þonne fotum ymbfehð fyres lafe, clam biclyppeð, ond his cyþþu eft, sunbeorht gesetu, seceð on wynnum, eadig eþellond. Eall bið geniwad feorh ond feþerhoma. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 61 Bodyes of wyfman, and tayl of uisssse, and clauen of arn. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. Vv As a Bittur in the Eagles clawe. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 470 If you tear off a claw from a live crab or lobster, it pushes out another. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 192 The southern claw of Cancer. < as lemmas |
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