Catspaw [noun]

What astonished me most, however, was the facility with which the Baron made a catspaw of him.

And her poor old catspaw of a pater stood helpless before my little hurricane--a very reed shaken by the wind.

It thought that it could use the South as a catspaw to pull its chestnuts out of the fires of hell.

With hardly a catspaw of wind, Hull drifted into sight of the British fleet off the Jersey coast.

"I'd give something for a catspaw," he said, remembering another nautical term.

"It may be the breeze, sir," suggested the sub, as a catspaw ruffled the surface of the placid water.

A change of heart has come over the world since Germany induced Austria to be her catspaw in 1914.

When I told him about their finding iron, he saw that they had made a catspaw of him; and he was the maddest man you ever saw.

Pete had some grudge of his own against Mr. Heron, so he made a good catspaw.

Again Fate had "taken a hand in the game," and used Miss Moon as catspaw.