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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jaw.
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Examples
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Is tempest-chaft [79], hys woe greate as hys forme,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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O, see, there are violets which stand close by the rivers, chaft by the rain and dew.
The Secret of the Creation Howard D. Pollyen
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The piper wants muckle that wants the nether chaft.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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I say I was vexed for it afterwards; especially as the laddie did not mean to give offence; and as I saw the blae marks of my four fingers along his chaft-blade.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I was vexed exceedingly to see the callant in this dilemmy, for he was growing very tall and thin, his chaft-blades being lank and white, and his eyes of a hollow drumliness, as if he got no refreshment from the slumbers of the night.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I was vexed exceedingly to see the callant in this dilemmy, for he was growing very tall and thin, his chaft-blades being lank and white, and his eyes of a hollow drumliness, as if he got no refreshment from the slumbers of the night.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I say I was vexed for it afterwards; especially as the laddie did not mean to give offence; and as I saw the blae marks of my four fingers along his chaft-blade.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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But God here difco - veis the great fecret of the two chaftife* ments he inflicb: a chaftifement of feve - rity upon the Chaldeans 5 a fatherly chaft - ifement on the Jews, who are his child* ren.
A Universal History from the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne 1767
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And amber: spic - ing the chaft air with fumes of Paradise.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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