rare. [f. CLAW v. + -ER.] One who claws. (See the vb.)
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 587. You are the pleasant clawers which teach that a man may bee saued by the faith of others.
1613. Davies, Muse’s Teares (1876), 9 (D.). The scopes Of all such clawers scratch for priuate ends.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, V. xxviii. (1737), 129. What an Abbreviator and Clawer off of Law-Suits.
