To wound or attack with the heels, horns, tusks, claws, or any natural weapon. Also absol. Now rare.

transitive. To gore, wound deeply; figurative to ‘goad’, infuriate.

To butt or gore with the horns.

Of a bird: To strike or wound with the spur. Also transferred.

transitive. Hunting. Of a hound: to mangle (dead game) with the mouth. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To root or dig up, or to tear off with the tusks; to wound with the tusk.

U.S. Of a fish: To wound with its fins. Also intransitive of a whale, to fin (out): to lash the water with its fins when dying.