英和和英

語源

From chaw (“jaw, underjaw”) +‎ bone.

名詞

chawbone (plural chawbones)

1. (obsolete outside archaic usage) Jawbone (maxillary bone).
   • 2000, Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer, page 140:

     "Ah, that's the problem, then. You've not lubricated your chawbones."

   • 2003, A Select Collection of Old English Plays:

     The chawbone of the ox that at Christ's birth was […]