Note 109 — NOTES ON THE FAIRY LEGENDS.
Reading edition
An instrument so called from its similarity to a tiger’s claw. It consists of sharp curved steel blades set on a bar, which fits by means of finger-rings to the inside of the hand, so as to be concealed when the hand is closed, while the blades project at right angles to the cross bar and palm when the hand is opened. It is struck as in slapping or tearing with the claws.