Claw (disambiguation)

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

Claw may also refer to:

• Claw hammer, a common carpentry tool.
• Bear claw, a sweet pastry often served for breakfast.
• Eagle Claw, a style of kung fu.
• Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team.
• Casey Claw, a snare drum technique.
• Claw-free permutation, a pair of permutations which do not "collide" on any inputs.
• Claw beaker, a type of drinking vessel used in the Dark Ages of Europe.
• Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships.
• 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 computing:

• Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Linux

In biology:

• Clawed Salamander, an amphibian found in Asia.
• Uncaria tomentosa, also known as Cat's claw, a plant found in Latin America.

In film and theatre:

• Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell.
• Claw (movie), a 1927 movie.
• The Giant Claw, a 1957 science-fiction film about a giant bird.
• The Steel Claw (film), a 1961 movie starring George Montgomery.

In gaming:

• Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions.
• Lightning Claw, a fictional weapon in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
• Claw vending machine, a type of arcade game in the form of a vending machine

In comics and animation:

• Claw (comics), a supporting character in Daredevil.
• Doctor Claw, the main villain of the animated television show Inspector Gadget.
• Klaw, a Marvel Comics supervillain and opponent of the Fantastic Four.
• Claw the Unconquered, a sword and sorcery character from DC Comics.
• Dragon's Claws, a Marvel comic book series.
• Dark Claw, a superhero created by Amalgam Comics, a combination of Wolverine and Batman.
• Red Claw, a fictional organization of assassins from the Batman series.
• Steel Claw, a British superhero and comic book series.
• Yellow Claw, a supervillain from Marvel Comics and enemy of Nick Fury.
• Clawful, an antagonist from the He-Man series.
• Cat Claw, a Yugoslavian superheroine.
• The Claw, the main villain in the animated series Karate Kommandos.
• The Claw Man, the main antagonist of the animated television series Gun X Sword.
• Claws, a Marvel three-issue limited series featuring Wolverine and Black Cat.
• Claw (Lev Gleason Publications), a character in comics from Lev Gleason Publications

In mathematics

• Claw (graph theory), is a complete bipartite graph K_1,3

[edit] See also

• Tooth and Claw