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Webster 1828 Edition

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Pulling, tearing or scratching with claws or nails.

clawing

clawing ‎(plural clawings)

A scratch with the claws.
- 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
  […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]

clawing ‎(comparative more clawing, superlative most clawing)