claw hatchet

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noun

a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails

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Words nearby claw hatchet

clawback, claw bar, clawed, claw foot, claw hammer, claw hatchet, claw off, claw setting, Clawson, claxon, clay

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How to use claw hatchet in a sentence

The conviction of the man known as The Hatchet, infamous for filming himself torturing gay people, is good news.
Jail Won't Stop Russia's Anti-Gay Psycho|Jay Michaelson|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My sisters Rosa and Liz called it “the claw,” lovingly at times, and at other times I was not so sure.
‘Tracing the Blue Light’: Read Chapter 1 of Eileen Cronin’s ‘Mermaid’|Eileen Cronin|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The dragon, now dangling by a claw from the edge of the sand tray, is on the cusp of defeat.
The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment|Alex Suskind|February 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My personal favorite—by which I mean least favorite—is the still-underrated phenomenon of selfie claw hand.
When Not to Take a Selfie|James Poulos|December 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST

This is not a hatchet job, and it certainly could have been.
Wheeere’s Johnny?|Malcolm Jones|October 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In the middle of his singing he felt the cold touch of the Crab's claw on the apple of his throat.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
The woman holds in her claw-like hand a half-empty bottle of cheap red wine.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith
The formation of an axe or hatchet, however crude it may have been, would naturally lead to another step in advance.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
She laughed still more when the parrot took a piece of cake in his claw, and ate it, bit by bit, as nicely as she could herself.
The Nursery, December 1881, Vol. XXX|Various
Two of the fingers, or the thumb and finger had been enlarged or grafted into a bone-like semblance of a crab's claw.
Valley of the Croen|Lee Tarbell