society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > strike with natural weapon > with nails or claws (2)
intransitive. To use the nails or claws for attack; to scratch (at a person).
absol. or intransitive. To use the claws or nails as weapons of offence. Also occasionally of inanimate things, to produce a scratch or…