Claw (disambiguation)
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A claw is a sharp growth at the end of a toe or finger.
Claw or Claws may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional entities
[edit]- Claw (comics), several unrelated characters
- C.L.A.W., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe
- Claw the Unconquered, a sword and sorcery character from DC Comics
- Doctor Claw, the main villain of the animated television show Inspector Gadget
- The Claw, the main villain in the animated series Karate Kommandos
Films
[edit]- The Claw (1918), an American silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola
- The Claw (1927), an American silent film directed by Sidney Olcott
- Claws (film), a 1977 American horror-thriller film directed by Richard Bansbach and Robert E. Pearson
Games
[edit]- Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions
- Claw crane, a type of arcade game known as a merchandiser
- Claw, a name frequently given to Street Fighter character Vega
Literature
[edit]- The Claw (novel), a 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley
- The Claw, a 1981 novel by Norah Lofts
- The Claw, a 1983 novel by Ramsey Campbell
- Claw, a 1994 novel by Ken Eulo
- The Claw, a 1995 novel in the Point Horror series by Carmen Adams
- Claws, a 2003 novel by Will Weaver
- Claws, a 2006 novel by Dan Greenburg
- Claw the Giant Monkey, a 2008 Beast Quest novel by Adam Blade
Music
[edit]- "Claw", a song by the British metal band Motörhead from their album Orgasmatron (1986)
- "Claws" (song), a song by English singer Charli XCX
- C-L-A-W-S, Gospel Claws album
- Gospel Claws, an indie rock group
Television
[edit]Episodes
[edit]- "Claws", Johnny Bravo season 2, episode 4a (1999)
- "Claws", Odd Job Jack season 3, episode 11 (2006)
- "Claws", Monster Allergy season 1, episode 15 (2007)
- "Claws", Natural World series 18, episode 15 (2000)
- "Claws", The Bionic Woman season 1, episode 5 (1976)
- "Claws", The Shak season 3, episode 39 (2007)
- "Claws", Wicked! episode 14 (1999)
Shows
[edit]- Claws (TV series), a 2017 American TV series
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick
- Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell
Implements
[edit]- Claw beaker, a type of drinking vessel used in the Dark Ages in Europe
- Claw chisel or tool, used for stone carving
- Claw hammer, a common carpentry tool
Organizations
[edit]- Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team
- Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), India
- Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand
- Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Biology and ecology
[edit]- Chela (organ), a pincerlike organ terminating certain limbs of some arthropods like crabs
- Claw, in botany, the narrowed, stalk-like, basal part of a petal, sepal, or bract
- "Claws", the nickname given to the Baryonyx dinosaur find made in a clay pit in Surrey
- CLAW hypothesis, a feedback loop between the climate and oceanic ecosystems
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]- Claw (graph theory), in mathematics a complete bipartite graph
- CLAWS (linguistics), a program that performs part-of-speech tagging
- Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like systems
See also
[edit]- Clawful, a fictional character in the Masters of the Universe toy line and the accompanying cartoon series He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon
- Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships
- Klaw (disambiguation)
- The Claw (disambiguation)