verb. (old).To beclaw; attack with fists and nails.
1630. TAYLOR (The Water Poet), Workes. A poore labouring man was married and matched to a creature that so much used to scold waking, that she had much adoe to refraine it sleeping, so that the poore man was so BATTERFANGD and belabourd with tongue mettle, that he was weary of his life.
c. 1709. WARD, Englands Reformation.
The Pastor lays on lusty Bangs: | |
Whitehead the Pastor BATTERFANGS. |