chaft

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the jaw, especially in Scots and northern English dialect and often used in the plural

   The cold made his chaft tremble as he spoke.

Inherited through northern Middle English chaft from Old Norse kjaptr or kjoptr ("jaw"), ultimately from a Germanic word for the jaw. The term survives chiefly in Scots and northern English dialects.

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