Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In English forest law, to cut out the balls or claws of the fore feet of, as a dog, to render incapable of hunting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Eng. Forest Laws) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet. See also
declaw .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, obsolete, transitive, law To
deprive of theclaws or theballs of theforefeet .
Etymologies
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Latin expeditatus, past participle of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot.
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