单词 | chaft |
释义 | chaftn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1300 |
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