Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To scold or revile.
Usage examples of "claw away".
Gruesome hurled the claw away with a howl of frustration-but even as he did, it was fading, fading .
With one hand she gripped the bird's legs, lifting the claw away from her wrist - it was bleeding a little where the claws had cut, it was her own fault, for she had no proper glove.
With a sudden sweep of his hand, Quorl knocked the paraplegic claw away.
Then he glanced at Gianna and Antonio and deliberately forced himself to imagine them all sprawled on the deck dead, lying in pools of their own blood, as the Kathleen tried to claw away from the frigate's broadsides because he'd miscalculated and the Spaniards had called his bluff.
He wanted to reach into his mind and claw away his absorption in her.