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claw
verb
to pick a glass up from its top US- — Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years, 1998
- You learned never to “claw” a glass by picking it up from the top so your fingers touched the rim. You always used a napkin and handled the glass in the middle. — Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years, p. 173, 1998
▶ claw off a lee shore
to face serious difficulties in a task or project US
Nautical origins.- — Charles F. Haywood, Yankee Dictionary, pp. 30–31, 1963
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