chawe

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of chaw (“jaw”).

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Between his cankred teeth a venemous tode, / That al the poyson ranne about his chawe: / But inwardly he chawed his owne mawe / At neighbours wealth, that made him ever sad; / For death it was when any good he sawe; / And wept, that cause of weeping none he had,”

“[Quoting an earlier text:] John Doughty was so badly beaten about his head that 'some parte of his chawe bone afterwards rotted out', as a result⟳, he was forced to keep⟳ to his house for eighteen weeks and 'was not able to goe about and follow⟳ his busines'. But this was by no means the end⟳ of the matter⟳. Early in January[…]”

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