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jawed

/ˈd͡ʒɔd/ adjective C2
  1. Having jaws.
  2. Having a specified type of jaw.
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In age he may have been about fifty, with a strong-jawed, rugged face, a grizzling moustache, peculiarly keen gray eyes, and a wiry, vigorous figure which had lost nothing of the strength and activity of youth.
The Valley of Fear, p. 23 · C1
The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 22 · C1
He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 77 · C1
We’ll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big, lean-jawed pike, or whether he has got through the meshes.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 179 · C1

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