Citations:paw up

English citations of paw up

• 1735, William Ellis, The Practice of Farming and Husbandry in all Sorts of Soils, according to the latest Improvements, page 166:

  In Chalks and Sands, this Method is not practiſed at all, for here the Sheep will either paw it up, or pull it up with their Mouths in ſuch looſe, ſhort Ground […]

• 1894, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Footprints of Four Centuries, International Publishing Co., page 706:

  They break ranks and scatter, pawing up the hot sand or loose grass, and flinging it, hoof-load after hoof-load, over their backs.

• 1905, Cornelia Hickman, “An Alaskan Journey with Reindeer”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas Magazine, volume XXXII, Scribner, page 357:

  We heard the hoofs of Uncle Ben beating on the pulk's side as he pawed up the snow in his efforts to get at us […]

• 1907, Norman H. Cromwell, “Ezra Bogg's Moose Hunt”, in Caspar Whitney, editor, The Outing Magazine, volume L, Outing Publishing Company, page 159:

  But jest then th’ bull pawed up a wagonload of dirt and let out a beller that purty nigh loosened th’ fillin’ in my hind teeth.

• 1993, “खूँदना [khūṁdnā]”, in R. S. McGregor, editor, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, page 242:

  1. to trample (with hooves, or feet). 2. to dig or to paw up (ground).