Usually means: Vigorously criticizing or attacking someone.
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  1. clapperclawing: Merriam-Webster
  2. clapperclawing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clapperclawing: Vocabulary.com
  4. clapperclawing: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clapperclaw)

verb:  (obsolete) To fight and scratch.
verb:  (obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold.
▸ Also see clapperclaw


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