Slipping the clav in her claw

• taking the key in her hand
  • (The word clav ‘fits’ inside the word claw .. with extra strokes symbolising a thumb?)

• clav (Rhaeto-Romanic) key

• clava (Italian) club, mace

• klao (Greek) to break

• slip the calf (animal husbandry term) to suffer / initiate abortion / stillbirth