Chaw: Definition and part of speech

Chaw

  1. v. t. The jaw.
  2. v. t. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
  3. v. t. To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
  4. v. t. As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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