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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)

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 # A scratch with the claws.
-#* '''1750''', ''The Universal Magazine'' (volume 7, page 52)
+#* {{quote-text|en|year=1750|title=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 {{...}}
+|passage={{...}} 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 {{...}}}}
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