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单词 chaft
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chaftn.

/tʃɑːft//tʃaft/
Forms: In Middle English schaft, 1800s dial. chaff.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse *kjǫft-.
Etymology: < Old Norse *kjǫft- (in Icelandic kjǫptr , kjaptr , Swedish käft (pronounced chäft ) jaw, Danish kieft (chops), answering to a Gothic type *kiftus , Old Germanic *keftu-z , possibly from a stem *kef- *kaf- ‘to make a chewing movement with the under jaw’, whence also Old English ceafl , Middle English chavel jowl n.1, and various cognate words in German and Dutch.
Obsolete exc. northern dialect.
The jaw, chap; usually in plural. (Chiefly northern, and since 17th cent. only dialect)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun]
rakeeOE
jowlOE
jawsc1374
chafta1400
chop?a1513
chaw1530
chop1615
masticator1681
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7510 A bere, a leon, bath i mete..And scok þam be þe berdes sua Þat i þair chafftes [Fairf. chauelis, Gött. chaulis, Trin. Cambr. chaules] raue in tua.
c1420 Anturs Arth. xi Off the schaft & the shol shaturt to the shin.
1483 Cath. Angl. 57 A Chafte, maxilla.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxix. 17 I brake the chaftes of ye vnrighteous.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xl. 12 Canst thou..bore his chaftes thorow with an aule?
1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue xv. sig. G.iv To cry out wt oppin chaftes.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 195 Debility of the nerves which moveth the chaftes.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 64 As slyly as thy fause chafts waggs.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 247 Like to gaunt our chafts aff.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Chafts or Chaffs, the jaws. ‘Chaffs tied up’, dead.
1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chaffs (N. Lanc.), Chuffs (S. Lanc.), jaw bones.

Compounds

chaft-blade, chaft-bone; chaft-fallen adj.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones > lower
jowlOE
chin-bonec1000
cheek boneOE
chaft-bonea1300
mandible?a1425
chawle-bone1430
jawbone1490
chaw-bone1546
choule1573
chap1575
mandibula1704
inferior maxilla1846
submaxilla1877
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1073 Wit þe chafte ban of a ded has..slan he was.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lvii[i]. 6 Smyte the chaft bones of the lyons whelpes.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 140 Underneath the chaftbone.
1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Chaff-bone, the jaw-bone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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