noun

• (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
• (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
  "a narrow base, as the petals of a Rose, where the claw is very short"
• (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
• (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.

verb

• (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
• (transitive, obsolete)
  "I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour."
• (transitive, obsolete)
  "In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation."
• (transitive, obsolete)
  "Do'n't you remember, Sirrah, ſayes one, hovv vve clavv'd it avvay at ſuch a Place! Yes, ye Damn'd Rogue you, cryes t'other, vvhen you vvere ſo drunk you took your Aunt for the Bavvd."