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# chaw

«chaw» in Mova's school dictionary: **to chew: to bite and grind food with the teeth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (chaws, chawed, chawing)

### meaning for a pupil

(dialect, old use) To chaw is to chew: to bite and grind food with the teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaw/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales of country folk, a rough word for chewing food; not used in school.

### examples

- He chaws on a stalk of grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaw/#x1)
- The old man chawed his bread slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaw/#x2)
- Don't chaw with your mouth open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaw/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chaw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.