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claw off

vb. (context nautical intransitive English) to beat to windward to avoid being driven on to a lee shore

Usage examples of "claw off".

The Bothan smiled wryly, then plinked a claw off YVH 1-302A's armor.

When he shook a Cygnan claw off, two or three more were there to take its place.

He looked out over the tumult of bloody battle where Purple Dragons were slowly advancing to meet each other, hacking down the orcs trapped between them, then up at the-three, by now-ghazneths who were swooping down to claw off a head here, and rake open a face there.

Eyes watering from the overpowering stink of cinnamon, she cut the claw off her boot.

Those damned rats would have killed twice as many if they didn't stop to take a claw off each one.