English-Spanish translations for jaw

• barbilla
• boca
• mandíbula
  Fue trasladado al hospital con fracturas en las piernas, la mandíbula destrozada, dedos cortados y el cráneo fracturado. He was taken to hospital with broken legs, a shattered jaw, severed fingers and a fractured skull.
  Hoy plantean problemas los cepos de mandíbulas y las hormonas de la carne de bovino. ¿Qué será lo siguiente en el futuro, señor Comisario? Now it is the jaw leghold retaining traps which are at stake, the hormones in beef and who knows, Mr Commissioner, what it might be tomorrow?
• maxilar
• quijada

Definition of jaw

• One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth
• Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance
• A notch or opening
• One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them
• The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast
• Axle guard
• To assail or abuse by scolding
• To scold; to clamor
• To talk; to converse
• To stick in the jaws of a pocket

Examples

• His jaw dropped in amazement.
• the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
• the jaw of a railway-car pedestal.
• the jaws of a vise; the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.

Related words

• jawbone
• jawbreaker
• jaws
• lockjaw
• jawed
• Janjaweed
• jawline
• jawless
• jaw-droppingly