Cat's paw
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Cat's paw or Catspaw may refer to:
- "Cat's paw", an idiom, meaning "the dupe (or unwitting tool) of another", derived from Jean de La Fontaine's fable "The Monkey and the Cat"
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Catspaw (rock opera), a 1974 Australian rock musical written by Dorothy Hewett
- 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
Nature
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Cat's paw (knot), a knot used for connecting a rope to an object
- Cat's paw (tool), a hand tool for extracting nails