chaw

[ chaw ]

/ tʃɔ /

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verb (used with or without object), noun Dialect.

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OTHER WORDS FROM chaw

chawer, noun

Words nearby chaw

Chavez, Chávez, Cesar, Chavin, chavtastic, chavurah, chaw, chawk, chay, Chayefsky, chayote, chazan

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How to use chaw in a sentence

As soon as they disappear they make way for the "horn worm" who now takes his turn at a "chaw."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Well, I bet you can't find skins or Birch bark enough in this woods to make a teepee big enough for a Chipmunk to chaw nuts in.
Two Little Savages|Ernest Thompson Seton
But theyre bitin off a big chaw, and it tickles me to see em do it.
Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm|Alice B. Emerson

It ran straight up through the center of the cabin and was as yaller as a chaw of cavendish, when it's pretty well chawed.
Barney Blake, The Boy Privateer|Herrick Johnstone

British Dictionary definitions for chaw

chaw

/ (tʃɔː) dialect /

verb

to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it

noun

something chewed, esp a plug of tobacco

Derived forms of chaw

chawer, noun

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