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chawed, ppl. a. (now vulgar).|tʃɔːd|
[f. chaw v.1]
1. Chewed (but not swallowed).
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 169 They..feede them [pigeons] with chawed white bread. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. ii. 50 In their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt Lyes foule with chaw'd-grasse. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 328 Chewed or chawed.
†2. Of bullets: see chaw v. 1 b.
1644Ld. A. Capel in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 364 III. 305 We have found divers bulletts which were chawd in our wounded men. 1683Crowne City Pol. v. i. 65 As venemous as a chaw'd bullet. 1689Moyle Sea Chyrurg. ii. v. 39 Provided the shot were round and not chaw'd or jag'd. 1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xxvii. 257 He emptied all the contents on the counter, viz.: two silver fips, three ‘chaw'd bullits’, a damaged rifle-wiper [etc.]. |