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maw::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cakehole, gob, hole, trap, yap |
| Type of | mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris |
Examples of maw
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Sometimes even important documents disappear into the maw of a vast bureaucracy.
From the time.com
Don't blink, kids, because your favorite team may vanish into the offseason maw.
From the stltoday.com
Other romanisations used include mo lam, maw lam, maw lum, moh lam and mhor lum.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There he was, rearing up over my bedhead, his huge fangs protruding from his maw.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Vietnam was a voracious maw that never stopped sucking in people and resources.
From the time.com
It's surrounded by an accretion disk of gas swirling toward the black hole's maw.
From the sciencedaily.com
Two hours ago, we had been sitting in the maw of traffic in downtown Brisbane.
From the independent.co.uk
Eighteen months into the maw of this recession, families are still struggling.
From the bostonherald.com
Now, a maw in the ground stands behind Metro State President Steve Jordan's office.
From the denverpost.com
- Trap: informal terms for the mouth
- Spoil-Five, Spoilt Five, Five and Ten, is the traditional book version of the Irish national card game called Twenty-Five, which underlies the Canadian game of Forty-Five. Charles Cotton describes it in 1674 as "Five Fingers", a nickname applied to the Five of Trumps extracted from the fact that the Irish word cuig means both 'five' and 'trick'...
- The Maw is an action-adventure video game developed by independent developer Twisted Pixel Games. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade on January 21, 2009, and for Microsoft Windows on March 9, 2009. It became available via Steam on March 10, 2009. ...
- The stomach, especially of an animal; the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature; any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Marine Air/Aircraft Wing. Also, abbreviation for Mission Adaptive Wing, being aircraft wings that can change the shape of their upper, leading, and trailing edge surfaces so as to improve flight performance without the use of hanging devices, such as FLAPs.
- Deut 18: 3] the stomach of larger animals.
- [maw] - noun. The mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, esp. a carnivorous mammal. The turtle's gaping maw terrified us until we were informed he was just yawning. [image source]
- Here, the throat, gullet, or jaws of a voracious animal or fish.
- Abbreviation of maximum authorised weight.
