ppl. a. (now vulgar). [f. CHAW v.1]

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  1.  Chewed (but not swallowed).

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. (1586), 169. They … feede them [pigeons] with chawed white bread.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., IV. ii. 50. In their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt Lyes foule with chaw’d-grasse.

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1693.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 328. Chewed or chawed.

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  † 2.  Of bullets: see CHAW v. 1 b.

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1644.  Ld. A. Capel, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 364, III. 305. Wee have found divers bulletts which ware chawd in our wounded men.

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1683.  Crowne, City Politiques, V. i. (1688), 58. He’s as venemous as a chaw’d Bullet.

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1689.  Moyle, Sea Chyrurg., II. v. 39. Provided the shot were round and not chaw’d or jag’d.

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