chaw

Etymology 1
From, an unexplained variation of. See for more. Cognate with 🇨🇬, obsolete 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Compare also 🇨🇬 and, whence 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  That which is chewed.
 * 2)  Chewing tobacco.

Verb

 * 1)  To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
 * 2) * c. 1540,, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130:
 * The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
 * Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.
 * 1) * 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62:
 * "en"

- And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode


 * 1)  To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
 * , Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,
 * "en"
 * 1)  To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
 * , Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,
 * "en"

- "I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight, And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went, Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight, With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;


 * 1)  To steal.

Etymology 2
From Early Modern English, either a form of , (whence also ) which has lost the final -l, or a form of ,. See and  for more.

Noun

 * 1)  The jaw.
 * 2) * 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62:
 * "en"

- all the poison ran about his chaw