Claymore (disambiguation)

A claymore is a two-handed sword, particularly the Scottish cross-hilted great sword.

Claymore may also refer to:

Places

• Claymore, New South Wales, Australia
• Claymore oilfield, North Sea; an oilfield northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
• Claymore Creek, South Dakota, USA; a creek

People and characters

• Claymore J. Flapdoodle, the pseudonym of Magic-the-Gathering card artist Phil Foglio (born 1956)

Fictional characters

• Claymore (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Claymores, a character class from the media franchise Claymore; see List of Claymore characters

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Claymore (manga), a heroic manga-anime media franchise property named after a group of its fictional characters (called Claymores), who carry Claymore-style greatswords
  • Claymore (comic book), the original Japanese serialized comic property; see List of Claymore chapters
  • Claymore (TV series), the anime Japanese TV show adaptation; see List of Claymore episodes
    • "Claymore" (TV episode; Japanese: クレイモア, romanized: KUREIMOA), season 1 episode 1 of Claymore
• "Claymore" (song), a 2021 song by Isaiah Rashad off the album The House Is Burning (album)

Groups, companies, organizations

• Scottish Claymores, a WLAF American-football team in Scotland
• Claymore Game Studios, a videogame developer
• Claymore Group, a subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners, an investment company
• Claymore Books, a British publisher

Watercraft

• Claymore-class destroyer, a group of thirteen destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century
  • French destroyer Claymore, a French Navy Claymore-class destroyer
• MV Claymore, a shipname for motor vessels
  • MV Claymore (1955), a mail boat
  • MV Claymore (1978), a ferry
  • MV Claymore (2024), a ferry
  • MV Claymore 2, a passenger and cargo ship
• HMS Claymore, a WWII British Royal Navy Weapon-class destroyer
• SS Empire Claymore, the British WWII Empire ship 'Claymore'

Weapons

• M18 Claymore mine, an explosive weapon
• Scottish broadsword, a basket-hilted sword, sometimes also included as claymores

Other uses

• Operation Claymore, a WWII British/Norwegian commando raid

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Claymore
• All pages with titles containing Claymore