English Dictionary

chaw

/t͡ʃɔː/

verb

(archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)

He chawed on a piece of gum.

意味（1）

(archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)

The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,

The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt, Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.

意味（2）

(obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62,

"I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,

And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,

Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,

, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, p. 62, "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;

意味（3）

(UK, slang) To steal.

Some pikey's chawed my bike.