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Chavender


CHAVENDER,

CHAW, verb transitive

1. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to ruminate, or to chew as the cud.

2. To ruminate in thought; to revolve and consider.

CHAW, noun

1. The jaw. Ezekiel 29:4. But in modern editions of the Bible it is printed jaw.

2. In vulgar language, a cud; as much as is put in the mouth at once.