chaw on

Example Sentences

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There, take that home and chaw on it.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

"I'm that near gone I could chaw on a dog biscuit and like it!" grumbled the shorter man.

From Afloat on the Flood by Leslie, Lawrence J.

I tell ye what you do: Give him a bone or a chunk of tough meat to chaw on.

From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Hit sorter stirs 'em up an' gives 'em somethin' to chaw on, an' keeps 'em contented like.

From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne

One of the undershirts had been knotted up tightly, and Shep had to "chaw on the beef," as boys call it, to get the knots untied.

From Young Hunters of the Lake by Bonehill, Ralph