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nounEtymology From claim + -er.
1
A person who makes a claim; a claimant.
2
A pretender to a royal title.
3
A racehorse offered for sale before a race and delivered to the buyer afterwards.
4
A claiming race.
- He did not have a proper claiming authorization on file, and contended that the trainer had not asked his permission to enter the horse in a claimer.2002, Paul D. Siegel, How to Own Winning Standardbred Racehorses, page 61:
- Derived terms
- counterclaimer