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verb

Chaw v. t. (past & past part. chawed; pres. part. chawing)

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. "The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood."

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Note: A word formerly in good use, but now regarded as vulgar.

noun

Chaw n.

As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid. (Law)

The jaw. (Obs.)

Chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law)

Chaw tooth, a grinder. (Law)

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Etymology of 'Chaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning; it is so hard to get the little things together and then, like as not, they have half of them to be sent back to wash their faces and hands. Asked the little children questions, such as "What are your eyes for?" "For see'long." "Teeth?" "For chaw'long," etc. ...

— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various

... of the age" he attributes to the fact that men are still striving "to uphold the usurped Ecclesiastical Power, which God never made," and that in upholding this they are "so mad and ignorant" as "to count Magistracie no government unless the Beast reign cheek by chaw with it, as formerly in the days of ignorance." This, however, he contends, should not be so, "for Magistracie in the Commonwealth must stand, it's God's ordinance. But this Ecclesiastical power in and over the ...

— The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens

... was extremely annoyed by a free and enlightened citizen's perpetually spitting across him, out of the window. He bore it patiently for some time, till at last he ventured to remonstrate, when the other said, 'Why, colonel, I estimate you're a-poking fun at me—that I do. Now, I'm not a-going to chaw my own bilge-water, not for no man. Besides, you need not look so thundering ugly. Why, I've practised all my life, and could squirt through the eye of a needle without touching the steel, let alone such a great saliva-box as that ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... off more'n we can chaw," Harvey Gosse murmured, rubbing his bristly chin. "I ain't what you might call noways anxious to have them fellows spill ...

— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine

... got to chaw up old Crowdy on the paper question. What will the Geese do if you're not there?" The club in question was ordinarily called the Goose Club, and the members were in common parlance called ...

— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope

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