To claw away

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to scold or revile.

- Tyndale.

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I had to claw away from the bank pretty lively four or five times, to keep from knocking the islands out of the river; and so I judged the raft must be butting into the bank every now and then, or else it would get further ahead and clear out of hearing -- it was floating a little faster than what I was.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

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