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Meaning of Clawing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

A scratch with the claws.

Equivalents

العربية الخمش
Suomi kynsiminen
Svenska klösning

Examples

“[…] 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 […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

clawlessness clawmark Claws Clawson Clawson point Clawson, Hose and Harby

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