Jaw

(noun.) holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object.

(noun.) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.

(noun.) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth.

乔安娜录入

• It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The first teeth of the infant are called the deciduous or _milk_ teeth, and are twenty in number--ten in each jaw. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The spasm causes the muscles of the jaw to contract very quickly and as soon as they are contracted, they let the jaw fall again of its own weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Robespierre, it seems, was shot in the lower jaw by a gendarme. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While we stood looking, a wart, or an excrescence of some kind, appeared on the jaw of the Sphynx. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Dr. Keith, swayed by the jaw-bone, does not think that _Eoanthropus_, in spite of its name, is a creature in the direct ancestry of man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A small part of the end of the wire extends beyond the jaws. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• So it is with the wonderfully complex jaws and legs of crustaceans. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One of the most common is the clam-shell dredge, consisting of a pair of large, heavy iron jaws, hinged at the back, in general form resembling a pair of huge clam shells. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She just jawed about it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• When money is to be paid and received, there is always some vehement jawing and gesticulating about it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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