jaw
/d͡ʒɔ/ noun B2- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- The part of the face below the mouth. · His jaw dropped in amazement.
- Anything resembling the jaw (sense 1) of an animal in form or action; the mouth or way of entrance. · the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
- A notch or opening.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place. · the jaw of a railway-car pedestal.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them. · the jaws of a vise; the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
- The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- Impudent, abusive, or worthless talk.
Plural jaws
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I should certainly weep if you killed a poor deer, and then my jaws would rust again.”
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.
These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted.
When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.
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