Meaning of overjaw | Babel Free

Definitions

The upper jaw (superior maxillary).

rare

Examples

“And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue.”

“The King was now represented with a receding forehead, a lined and haggard face, a long nose, thick lips, slanting eyes, a hanging overjaw, and hollow cheeks.”

“He drove her over the Hayward Fault, its boundaries jammed together like an overjaw clenched to an underjaw.”

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