The Collaborative International Dictionary
Claw \Claw\ (kl[add]), n. [AS. clawu, cl[=a], cle['o]; akin to D. klaauw, G. klaue, Icel. kl[=o], Sw. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.]
A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
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(Bot.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
--Gray.Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc.
Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern.
Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.
Wiktionary
n. Any size hammer with 2 prongs protruding back from the head to allow for removing nails from wood.
WordNet
n. a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails [syn: carpenter's hammer, clawhammer]
Wikipedia
Claw Hammer was an American indie rock band from California. Claw Hammer formed in 1986 in Long Beach, California; its members were from several neighboring municipalities. Their name was taken from a Captain Beefheart song. The group released a cassette and some small-issue EPs and singles before signing to Sympathy for the Record Industry, who released their debut LP, an eponymous effort, in 1990. In 1991 they did an album entirely covering Devo's 1978 Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!. The group signed to Epitaph Records for their 1993 release, Pablum. In 1994, Claw Hammer performed as the backing band on Wayne Kramer's Epitaph release, The Hard Stuff. Jumping to major label Interscope, they released two more LPs, the last being 1997's Hold Your Tongue (and Say Apple). The group played live until 2000.
A reunion show was held on September 13, 2013 at The Echo in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
Clawhammer or Claw hammer may refer to:
- Claw hammer, a type of hammer
- Clawhammer, a style of banjo playing
- Claw Hammer, an indie rock band active 1986–2000
- Athlon 64, a microprocessor released 2003, also called Clawhammer
Usage examples of "claw hammer".
I threw in a box of old iron nails and a solid-steel Craftsman claw hammer with a black rubber grip, and put a couple of pieces of chalk in my pocket.
Victim had fifteen separate wounds made by a claw hammer, five to the head, three to the chest area, seven to the arms and hands.
But these were his old tools, his favorites, and this was the claw hammer with the chewed-up old wooden handle, the one he had owned all his years in San Francisco.
When they plunged through the blind corner, Skeeter turned on his heel and waited, claw hammer clutched in one hand.
He shuddered as he tried to ban from his mind the image of Trent coming at him with the claw hammer in his hand.
A twist of Skeeter's claw hammer served to break the wires around her wrists and throat.
He put the claw hammer away, untethered Blaze from the fence, and swung back in the saddle to ride on, knowing he'd be skirting the back forties of the Bedford place.
It reassured him, along with the claw hammer under the driver's seat of the T-bird and the sock full of pennies he kept behind the cash register at the record store.
Hazard selected a claw hammer and raced back upstairs, glad that he had turned on so many lights when he’.
Hazard put his gun on the floor and used the claw hammer to pry nails from one of the thick sheets of particle board with which Laputa had sealed off the windows.
I don't know whether it was a standard claw hammer like the one used here.