chawbone

English

Alternative forms

  • chawe bone, chaw-bone

Etymology

From chaw (“jaw, underjaw”) +‎ bone.

Noun

chawbone (plural chawbones)

  1. (obsolete outside archaic usage) Jawbone (maxillary bone).
    • 2000, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer, page 140:
      "Ah, that's the problem, then. You've not lubricated your chawbones."
    • 2003, A Select Collection of Old English Plays:
      The chawbone of the ox that at Christ's birth was […]
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