claimer
- noun
- /ˈkleɪmər/
- Yeah, we got the starter on the fifth and we'll win the maiden claimer easy.
- a maiden claimer
There's never been, there's never been any reason for these claimers to not claim everything because there's no consequence to that.
- There's never been, there's never been any reason for these claimers to not claim everything because there's no consequence to that.
Examples
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The kids all know who's a claimer and who's the big horse.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was a $5,000 claimer, and the race was a mile and an eighth.
Blog text (18) -
I was picked up, by a man called Silver Claimer Rize.
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Well, I guess that little horse of theirs turned out to be a glorified claimer after all.
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You split them up into groups and you teach one group, the stakes horses, something different than you teach the claimers.
Fiction book (2000) -
A win against allowance-optional claimers followed on Aug. 30 at nine panels.
Blog text (22) -
He is about to ride the favorite, Side Winding, a $4,000 claimer, his fourth of nine mounts for the day.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's never been, there's never been any reason for these claimers to not claim everything because there's no consequence to that.
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Armin's horse, a four-year-old filly named Fortune's Gait, had been a bottom-level maiden claimer, later thrilling by the Cinderella story she turned out to be.
Fiction book (1997) -
The insurance company received a large number of claims from claimers seeking compensation for their losses.
Synonyms
A person who asks for money or a right they say is theirs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Claimer is formed from claim plus the agent ending -er. Claim comes from the old Latin word clamare meaning 'to call', so a claimer is someone who 'calls' something theirs or asks for something they say belongs to them.