jawe bone

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chavyl bon

Etymology

From jawe +‎ bone.

Noun

jawe bone

  1. jawbone
    • c. 1489, William Caxton, transl., The Right Plesaunt and Goodly Historie of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon (The English Charlemagne Romances; part XI), London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., published 1885, page 562:
      And whan aymonet saw hym so wounded he gaff constans soo grete a stroke vpon the ere, that he bare it awaye wyth all the iawe bone / […]
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Descendants
  • English: jawbone
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