Claw (disambiguation)

A claw is a sharp growth at the end of a toe or finger.

Claw or Claws may also refer to:

• Chela (organ), a pincerlike organ terminating certain limbs of some arthropods like crabs
• In botany the narrowed, stalk-like, basal part of a petal, sepal or bract
• Claw hammer, a common carpentry tool
• Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team
• Claw beaker, a type of drinking vessel used in the Dark Ages in Europe
• Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand
• Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick
• CLAW hypothesis, a feedback loop between the climate and oceanic ecosystems
• Claw chisel or tool, used for stone carving

In entertainment:

• Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell
• The Claw, a 1927 movie directed by Sidney Olcott
• "Claws", a 1976 episode of the television show The Bionic Woman
• Claws (TV series), an American television series
• Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions
• Claw vending machine, a type of arcade game in the form of a vending machine
• Vega (Street Fighter), a minor villain from the Street Fighter series

In music

• C-L-A-W-S, Gospel Claws album
• "Claw", a song by British metal band Motörhead from their 1986 album Orgasmatron

In comics and animation:

• C.L.A.W., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe
• Claw (comics), several unrelated characters
• Doctor Claw, the main villain of the animated television show Inspector Gadget
• Claw the Unconquered, a sword and sorcery character from DC Comics
• The Claw, the main villain in the animated series Karate Kommandos
• Claw (Lev Gleason Publications), a villain in comics from Lev Gleason Publications
• Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity

Other uses:

• Claw (graph theory), in mathematics a complete bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$
• Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Linux
• "Claws", the nickname given to the Baryonyx find made in a clay pit in Surrey
• CLAWS (linguistics), a program that performs part-of-speech tagging

See also

• Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships
• Klaw, a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
• The Claw (disambiguation)