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say it: paw
paw is a noun and verb meaning "a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped". It is pronounced /ˈpɔ/ — paw. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
“he had the hands of a surgeon”
“he extended his mitt”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.