Sentence:  His energy was prodigious ; sometimes he would be up before dawn , clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us , and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their <WSD>paws</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped