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Definition of "maw" []

  • The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore. (noun)
  • The opening into something felt to be insatiable: "I saw the opening maw of hell” ( Herman Melville). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "maw" in a sentence
  • "His maw was the only one heard him walk the floor nights, and after he found, out she could hear him he walked in his socks."
  • "To do this is called maw-pak, and hence the game gets its name, maw-pak bae-ang."
  • "To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing. your -- literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt. dung of ... solemn feasts -- The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests"