Cat's paw

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Cat's paw can refer to several things with a fancied resemblance to the paw of a cat:

• The cat's paw hitch, a type of knot.
• A carpenter's tool, resembling a small crowbar, used to remove nails. The claw of the tool is hammered into the wood under the nail head. The nail is pried out far enough that a claw hammer can be used to completely remove it.
• The Cat's Paw Nebula, a nebula in Scorpius resembling a pawprint.
• A dupe; a person unwittingly manipulated by another to effect a plan without the latter's personal involvement; from the fable The Monkey and the Cat.
• The Cat's Paw, an oil painting by Sir Edwin Landseer, depicting the scene between cat and monkey, from the abovementioned fable.
• An instrument of torture, also known as a Spanish Tickler.
• A breeze that ruffles patches of a water surface.
• The Cat's-Paw, a 1934 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd

[edit] See also

• Catspaw