How to pronounce“claw”in English
for their owners. This was the depression era and people were desperate for ways to get money moving. During a crackdown on organzied crime in the 1950s federal law classified
claw machines as gambling devices and prohibited the transporation of them across state lines.
After those laws were relaxed in the 1970s newer claw machines from Europe and Asia spread throughout the United States. They actually started calling them "skill cranes" because
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Definitions of “claw”
A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
A foot equipped with such.
To scratch or to tear at.
“Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.”
To use the claws to seize, to grip.
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