Claw and Glove

Claw

Claw verb - Scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails.

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Glove and claw are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Glove" instead a verb "Claw".

Nearby Words: clawed, clawing

Glove noun - Handwear: covers the hand and wrist.

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Claw and glove are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Claw" instead a verb "Glove".

Nearby Words: gloved, glover, gloving

old	old claw	old glove
long	long claw	long glove
similar	similar claw	similar glove
alien	alien claw	alien glove
Other adjectives: single, heavy, large, huge, bad, infamous, new, mechanical, larger, remaining, titular, giant, robotic, electric, fingered, oversized.

In the TV episode, the claw was a gorilla glove with Vaseline smeared over it; in the later Peter Cushing movie, it was far more reptilian.

Source: Attack of the Monster Appendage
Mortal Kombat 9 Guest Fighter Freddy Krueger has a blurb in his story that explains why he's wearing a second claw-glove, even though he usually only wears one.

Source: Serendipity Writes the Plot
However, if you can kill a Deathclaw, you can make a melee weapon which does the exact same thing— by mounting its claw to a glove on your hand.

Source: Demonic Spiders / Role-Playing Games

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