Clawu

According to the Old English Dictionary:

clawu

Add: (cláwu? but cf. Orm. Clawwess). I. a claw, (1) of a bird or beast:--Earnes clawa, Hml. Th. ii. 434, 9. Him (birds) wǽron þá cleá blace (pedibus nigris), Nar. 16, 16. Clawa ungularum, An. Ox. 8, 385. Seó culfre is unréðe on hire clawum, Hml. Th. ii. 44, 26. Þá fuglas þá fixas mid hiora cléum (cleam, Nar. 16, 20) tǽron, Angl. iclaw-like nail of a human being:--Mé cóman tó Sílhearwan . . heora clawa wǽron scearpe, Hml. S. 4, 289. II. a hoof:--Þá þe synd gehófode on horses gelícnysse untóclofenum clawum, Hml. S. 25, 45. Eofores clawa oþþe óþres swínes gebærn tó ahsan, Lch. ii. 88, 21. Caelf forðlǽdende cleá (ungulas), Ps. Srt. 68, 33. III. a hook:--Clauuo harpago, Wrt. Voc. ii. 100, 78. Clawu, 7, 13. Hí man clifrode mid ísenum clawum, Hml. S. 12, 187. Ic ofercóm þæs cwelleres tintregu, scearp ísen and þá slítendan clawa, 8, 189. [v. N. E. D. claw, clee.] clawu

Related words: 153, 378. (2)