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Cat's paw

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Cat's paw or Catspaw may refer to:

  • "Cat's paw", an idiom, meaning "the dupe of another", derived from La Fontaine's fable "The Monkey and the Cat"
  • The paw of a cat

Arts and entertainment

  • Catspaw (TV series), a 1978 Australian series
  • "Catspaw" (Star Trek: The Original Series), a television episode
  • The Cat's-Paw, a 1934 film with Harold Lloyd
  • Cat's Paw (1959 film), a Looney Tunes cartoon
  • Catspaw (comics), April Dumaka, a superhero character in DC Comics
  • Cat's Paw (adventure), for the role-playing game Marvel Super Heroes
  • Catspaw, a 1988 science fiction novel by Joan D. Vinge
  • Catspaw, a 2021 album by Matthew Sweet
  • Catspaw, a Valyrian steel dagger in Game of Thrones.

Science

  • Cat's Paw Mussel, one of a few species of Epioblasma mussels
  • Catspaw, informal name of some species of the plant Anigozanthus (Haemodoraceae)
  • Cat's Paw Nebula or Bear Claw Nebula, common names for NGC 6334
  • Cat's paw (wave), in Earth sciences, a pattern of shallow ripples (capillary waves) on the surface of water

Technology

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