chawbone

noun

chawbone

noun

Etymology From chaw (“jaw, underjaw”) + bone.

1

Jawbone (maxillary bone).

Obsolete outside archaic usage

"Ah, that's the problem, then. You've not lubricated your chawbones."2000, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer, page 140:
The chawbone of the ox that at Christ's birth was […]2003, A Select Collection of Old English Plays:

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