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Definition of Clawing
1. claw [v] - See also: claw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clawing
Literary usage of Clawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... this hand presenting a certain amount of clawing is nearly useless. The atrophic
muscles respond to all varieties of electrical stimulation in normal ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"Then the boat comes, and, clawing by the net, they draw the boat about, and take
in all the fish. I might, to these, add more of the like nature ; but I ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"In late cases there is a marked tendency to clawing of the fingers, from the
involvement of the small muscles, so that the first phalanges are extended, ..."
4. The Clinical Journal (1897)
"If this condition of clawing is present, and the extensor muscles show by electrical
tests that there are but slight signs of degeneration, £ Эл» ,/'»''? ..."
5. Fifty Years of My Life by George Thomas Keppel Albemarle (1876)
"His description of clawing off a Lee-shore. [1821.] I had been so long absent
from duty that Ihad almost forgotten that I was a soldier. ..."
6. Outlines in Nature Study for the Primary and Intermediate Grades by William Hittell Sherzer (1907)
"... new channels and instead of prancing down the road as a wild horse, or clawing
the air like a bear, you may see him puffing like an auto or locomotive. ..."
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