Find the word definition

Crossword clues for clawfoot

Wiktionary
clawfoot

n. 1 (context medicine uncountable English) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion. 2 (context countable English) A foot of this kind. 3 (context countable English) A decorative foot on a bathtub etc. resembling a claw.

WordNet
clawfoot

n. a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw [syn: pes cavus]

Usage examples of "clawfoot".

Ignoring the bellows and singing iron, he hooked the clawfoot over the braided string and cinched it back.

Friday jumped up on the edge of the old clawfoot tub and stuck his head inside the shower curtain.

There was still a clawfoot tub and pedestal sink, but the shower was ultra modern with a double spray and a seat built into the fiberglass wall.

Filling up the huge, clawfoot cast-iron tub in her bathroom, bending over to add powdered soap and then to test the temperature of the water.

The bathroom was a radiance of white marble, with a huge clawfoot tub and glittering brass faucets and shower head.

They paused by the first-floor bathroom: a pedestal sink, a wonderful clawfoot tub, but no shower.

Kalam gaped to see his stallion charging for him and, crouched low over the saddle and swinging back the clawfoot on the Marine-issue crossbow, Minala.

The sound of myriad upon myriad Maggot clawfeet, passing right above them.

We were sitting in Eric Rynearson's museum of a living room, Gervais in a cruel-looking clawfooted chair with my gun and the contents of my pockets spread out on the table holding up the skull ashtray at his elbow, including my credentials, Rynearson's jade lighter, the ring of keys I'd taken out of the bedroom door, and the five thousand dollars.

Her flesh had never fallen on such fine linens or cloudy pillows, her eyes had never landed on a clawfooted bedstand with no keyring left upon it.

The tub was an enormous old-fashioned clawfooted vessel of heavy chipped white porcelain.

Weighted down by the heavy clawfooted base of each holder was a sheet of ancient parchment.

Harry made his way over to the painting, skirting a clawfooted table that had a stuffed marsh hawk perched on a stand atop it.

But the shock sent her straight into the clawfoot tub for a hot, frothy soak in sea salts and urged her to give herself a full treatment-facial, hot oil, manicure, just to prove she hadn't completely lost her mind.