jaw
noun
- body part
verb
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).
- A wave, a billow, a breaker.
“Upo' the briny Borean jaws to float,”
“... a craft […] That, like the white sea-mew, jinket the jaws On the briny breist o' the main.”
- A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
“But sweetly bends the reamin' bicker, To drown dull care in jaws o' liquor.”
“The nauseous mixture fell, When full in play; Wi' jaws upon the sprawling hash, […]”
verb
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).
- To pour or throw out.
“Bletherum bore her to the vestry, Jaw'd some water in her face; […]”
“Nae need to jaw watter on a droun'd moose.”
- To splash; to surge.
“'Twas freezin', thowin', rainin', snawin', In souple turns; While sheughs an' deep fur-drains were jawin' To spate the burns.”
“... a burn "whiles jawin' like a sea."”