Claw (disambiguation)

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

Fictional entities

• Claw (comics), several unrelated characters
• Claw (Lev Gleason Publications)]], a villain in comics from Lev Gleason Publications
• 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

• Claws (1977), a horror film
• The Claw (1927), a movie directed by Sidney Olcott

Games

• 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

Music

• "Claw", a song by the British metal band Motörhead from their album Orgasmatron (1986)
• C-L-A-W-S, Gospel Claws album
• Gospel Claws, an indie rock group

Television

• Claws (TV series), a 2017 American TV series
• "Claws", a 1976 episode of the television show The Bionic Woman

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick
• Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell

Implements

• 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

• Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team
• Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity
• Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand

Science

• 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
• CLAW hypothesis, a feedback loop between the climate and oceanic ecosystems
• "Claws", the nickname given to the Baryonyx dinosaur find made in a clay pit in Surrey

Other uses

• Claw (graph theory), in mathematics a complete bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$
• CLAWS (linguistics), a program that performs part-of-speech tagging
• Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Linux

See also

• Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships
• The Claw (disambiguation)
• Klaw (disambiguation)