Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "dew claw".
A series of gooey-lovey noises distracted her long enough to get the other two toes and the dew claw, and then Brenna took a moment while hunting up her thinning shears really to pay attention to Sammi.
Even if she had been able to use silverware, hold a porcelain teacup in one paw with her dew claw raised like a pinkie, and converse in the flawless English of an heiress who had attended a first-rate finishing school, Old Yeller could not have conducted herself more like a lady than she did at this Chinese feast.
She raced her hands across the dog's coat, down the knobbly legs with their tired old tendons, the little horny dew claw at the back of the ankle, until she found the reflective glimmer of wet fur - a soft, hot area.