Gnaw, v. i. To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.