1. plural of clawer; animals or creatures that claw, or devices that claw or scratch
Usage: typically used to refer to multiple animals with claws, such as cats or crustaceans

Examples

• The clawers in the tide pool—crabs and lobsters—scuttled across the rocks.
• Cats are natural clawers and need scratching posts to keep their claws healthy.
• The mechanical clawers in the arcade game grabbed at stuffed animals.
• Seabirds and other clawers left marks on the wooden dock.
• The clawers among the group of animals were kept in separate enclosures.