chaw

That which is chewed.

Chewing tobacco.

When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.

"YOU give him a chaw, did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."

To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).

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And next to him malicious Envy rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]

To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.

"I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight, And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went, Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight, With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;

To steal.

Some pikey's chawed my bike.

To be sulky.

The jaw.

all the poison ran about his chaw