obs. variants of claw-board (= CLAPBOARD), CLAW-HAMMER. [Perh. really for clove-bord, -hammer: see CLOVE ppl. a.]
1666. Lond. Gaz., No. 37/1. Five sayl of the Hamborough Fleet … chiefly loaden with Cloe-boards.
1623. Whitbourne, Newfoundland, 76. Mattocks and Cloe Hammers.
