Overjaw

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The upper jaw (superior maxillary). rare

    "And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue."

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"And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue."

Etymology

From Middle English overjowe, over jawe, a partial calque of earlier Middle English over chavel (“upper jaw”), equivalent to over- + jaw.

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