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noun
The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
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noun
The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
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noun
A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
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noun
A blow, bump, knock.
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noun
The tolling of a bell; knell.
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Usage: dialectal
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verb
To throw, dash, or knock.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To rumble.
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verb
To toll, knell.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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noun
the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jawbone
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Broader terms: articulator, jaw
Narrower terms: lantern jaw
noun
a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: feature, lineament
History
From Middle English jawle, chawl, chavel (“jaw, jawbone”), from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl (“jaw, cheek”). The modern form (for expected chavel, chawl; still found dialectally) is influenced by jaw, which it is a partial doublet of.
From Middle English cholle (“wattle, jowl”), from Old English ċeole (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ (“gullet”) (compare Scots choll, West Frisian kiel, Dutch keel, German Kehle), from Proto-Indo-European *gwelu- (“to swallow”) (compare Old Irish in·gilid (“to graze”), Irish goile (“stomach”), Latin gula (“throat”), gluttiō (“to swallow”), Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow, gulp”), Ancient Greek δέλεαρ (délear, “lure”), Armenian կլանել (klanel, “to swallow”), Persian گلو (galu), Hindi गला (galā, “neck, throat”)).
From Middle English jollen, chollen (“to knock, strike, batter; stagger”). Related to jow (“to knock, bump, ring”).
Across languages
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