FOREPAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forepaw mean? 

• FOREPAW (noun)
  The noun FOREPAW has 1 sense:

1. front paw; analogous to the human hand

  Familiarity information: FOREPAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREPAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Front paw; analogous to the human hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("forepaw" is a kind of...):

paw (a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forepaw"):

hand (terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos))

Holonyms ("forepaw" is a part of...):

forelimb (the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing))

 Context examples 

It is a creature walking erect upon three-toed feet, and occasionally putting one of its five-fingered forepaws upon the ground.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; neither do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)