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Jaw   /dʒɔ/   Listen
Jaw

noun
1.
The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.
2.
The bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth.
3.
Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object.
verb
(past & past part. jawed; pres. part. jawing)
1.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.
2.
Talk incessantly and tiresomely.  Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away.
3.
Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.  Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate.  "Chew your food and don't swallow it!" , "The cows were masticating the grass"
4.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"



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"Jaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoulders reveals something of the character of the fish, though the purpose of its resplendent appearance may not be obvious. Both head and jaws typify strength and leverage power. The mouth resembles the beak of a turtle or rather that of a balloon fish (TETRAODON). The under jaw protrudes slightly, and is fitted (in the case of the male) with two prominent canine teeth; the upper jaw has also a pair of projecting teeth of similar character. Each of the jaws consists of two loosely sutured segments, the articulation of the lower being ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... Portsmouth, Sydney, Brest, and Toulon cannot be held by an enemy unless he brings forces sufficient to hold the neighbouring heights. In occupying Toulon, the Sea Power was virtually putting its head into the lion's jaw. Only by degrees did the authorities at home understand this all-important fact. For some time it was veiled from Pitt; and, as we shall see, the Austrian Chancellor, Thugut, never did understand it. ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... often that such a valuable prize came to a man and asked to be taken. He reached it and put one hand upon the side. Then a heavy fist stretched entirely over the canoe and struck him such a mighty blow upon the jaw that he sank senseless, and when he revived two minutes later on a low bank where the current had cast him, he did not know ...
— The Hunters of the Hills • Joseph Altsheler
... strolled out into the trading-room again. A curious grim smile softened his square jaw for a moment. He resumed his comfortable chair and took up a newspaper, glancing incidentally at the crowd of excited men about the tickers. He had about him that air of repose which comes to big men who have stayed much ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... the curtains, and the doctor, bending down, gave a comprehensive glance that took in the rolling head, the relaxed jaw, the ugly stain on the sheet. The examination needed only a moment. Death was written in the clear white of the nostrils, the colorless lips, the smoothing away of the sinister lines of the night before. With its new dignity ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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