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cat's-foot
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Definitions ofcat's-foot
1noun
- Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).
1noun
- A paw of a cat.
- Someone who acts in another's interest, (properly) unknowingly or through trickery.
- A minor breeze that ripples the surface of a body of water.
- A twisting variant of the lark's-foot hitch which forms two small bights used to hook a pair of tackles to a rope.
- Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a cat's paw.
- A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally used by carpenters to remove nails.
- (torture) A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh.
- A supervisor whose reliance on a subordinate's analysis is so complete as to render him or her liable for the subordinate's animus or other misconduct towards a third employee.
- Any of several species of North American freshwater mussels of the genus Epioblasma, especially E. obliquata.
- Any of several species of Australian bloodworts of the genus Anigozanthos, especially A. humilis.
1noun
- Glechoma hederacea, an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae.
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